Category Archives: Yeast Infection Treatment

Yeast Infection Treatment Outlines Outlines Some Articles Which Outline The The Basic Principles Of The Candida Crusher Program, Which Has Been Perfected By Naturopathic Doctor Eric Bakker Over The Past Twenty years Of Clinical Practice.

Yeast Infection Treatment, Yeast Infections and Men

12 Quick and Simple Tips for Preventing Male Yeast Infections

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Prevention of a man’s yeast infection is not unlike preventing a woman’s yeast infection. To reduce your chances of developing and maintaining a yeast infection around the penis and scrotum, I highly recommend that you follow the following ten rules. You will notice that quite a few of the lifestyle recommendations (like avoiding tight clothing, certain sports, spa baths, etc) are based on the fact that a men’s genital yeast infection can thrive in an environment which is warm, dark and moist and is fed on sugars and yeast foods in the diet. Knowing this, think about increasing the air flow around the penis and scrotum, wear cotton and loose fitting garments and remove the food supply that yeast likes to feed on: sugar and yeast laden foods.

1. Avoid wearing tight clothing – if you have a penis or scrotum yeast infection. Wear loose fitting clothing made from natural fibers like cotton. Temporarily avoid hot baths and jacuzzis (whirlpool baths and spas), especially if you have existing yeast infection.

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2. After swimming, shower and change into cotton underclothing and wear cool, loose fitting clothing. Always wear cotton.

3. Avoid alcohol – especially if you are prone to a men’s yeast infection, you will need to keep right away from alcohol if you have it. This may well be your single and biggest obstacle, and a maintaining cause I have verified with countless men.

4. Follow the Candida Crusher Program adopt the correct diet and especially avoid sugars and yeasty foods like chocolate, cookies, breads, candy, etc. My book Candida Crusher contains a large amount of lifestyle and diet information.

5. Avoid antibiotics for any type of illness – Antibiotics are one of the biggest causes of yeast infections; avoid them as much as possible. And if you absolutely must take them, be sure you take a course of a probiotics to follow-up with.

6. Trim pubic hair – Keep the pubic hair very short and trimmed around the genital region because if your hair is too long it may increase body heat in that area and ensure that the moisture is kept close to the skin. Long and bushy pubic hair may ensure that you maintain an ideal breeding ground for a yeast infection.

7. Avoid becoming overheated through sports, this may occur if you play active sports such as squash, tennis, or football. Having a sauna or even sunbathing can aggravate your skin condition if you have an active infection. If you get warm after playing sport, then have a cool shower afterwards and ensure complete dryness and clean cotton undergarments.

8. Treat for 3 months continuously – if you have a penis or groin rash make sure you treat it for at least 3 months (ninety days) continuously. It is common for a man to treat a yeast infection, eliminate the symptoms temporarily, and then have the condition come back with a vengeance several weeks later.

9. Swim in salt water – In summer, try to swim in the ocean regularly and if possible, allow sunlight on the affected areas. Your skin will respond very well because you are exposing the yeast infection to salt water and sunlight, two things that candida cannot tolerate.

10. Treat you partner too – It is highly recommended that you treat your significant other so they do not give it to you again; it is best to avoid “passing the parcel.”

11. Forget the quick-fix approach – you may end up having recurrent penis, groin, toenail fungus and digestive candida yeast infections like so many I’ve seen over the years. Do the diet AND lifestyle AND local treatment for ninety days without fail, and then keep on doing it until you get well and stay well for at least six months. Your reward will be well worth the effort, I guarantee it.

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12. Coconut oil is a great lubricant – Use pure organic coconut oil as a personal lubricant. It is not only fragrant and most effective as a lubricant; it is also a very effective antibacterial and anti-fungal agent. This will ensure that you don’t easily pass a yeast infection from one partner to another.

Female Yeast Infection Treatment, Vaginal Yeast Infections

An Introduction to Eradicating the Vaginal Yeast Infection

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anxiousMany female patients we see want to cure their yeast infection once and for all. They have most probably been to their medical doctor before seeking relief, and it is usually instant relief they are looking for. They want it fixed and they want that annoying prob­lem fixed NOW. Can you relate to this? The you’ve come to the right section on my website.

Some have visited their doctor just once, some twice, and yet others have gone to their health care practitioner literally dozens of times repeatedly trying to find the magic cure for their yeast-related problems. I would question the motive as to why any health-care professional is happy to see a patient routinely over and again, often giving the same advice and not seeing much improvement, let alone a permanent cure. This chapter is about a QUICK improvement, but not about a permanent cure in most cases. If you are looking for a permanent answer you will need to adopt the Candida Crusher Program.

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By following my 3-step male or female fast relief plan outlined below, you will get quick relief and sometimes within a few hours. You can do this mini program over and again and each time you will most probably find even more relief.

Quickly Crushing Female Yeast Infections is a 3-Step Process

I have always found that the women most often wanting a quick solution for yeast related problem would be generally referring to a vaginal yeast infection.

If it is a permanent cure of your yeast infection you are after, then it is important to follow the entire Candida Crusher program outlined in my book in addition to following the blueprint I have given down below. The female fast relief plan is a part of my Candida Crusher protocol, the same protocol I have recommended and fine-tuned over the past twenty years in my clinic. I know it works particularly well for most all women who follow it, because that is the feedback I nearly always get.

Important Note: Women who are experiencing a mild case of vaginal thrush will find this chapter most useful. If you condition is severe, then it is important to get the right diagnosis rather than to keep on treating a condition that may later turn out to be bacterial vaginitis or even an STD. For these reasons, be sure to visit your doctor to get the right diagnosis.

Women’s yeast infections are easy to treat at home and you won’t need to take any drugs or creams from the doctor either. I will outline the quick program below and give you all the instructions you need; this is one problem you can easily fix yourself.

If you have a menstrual cycle, it is important to commit to the program even during your menstrual period. Candida yeast infections can multiply rapidly during your flow days and particularly just coming into the cycle and just when it finishes. Many books I have read say to stop any treatments during your period, and that you may “cause harm” if you treat during your period. This is simply not true, and some women will wish to continually treat, even during their flow days, whereas others will wait until their period is finished, ultimately it is up to you but there is no reason why you can’t continue treatment.

What are the 3 Stages?

Here is a quick solution that will give you almost instant relief from your vaginal yeast infection, sometimes in a matter of hours. Follow each of the three steps in succession for the best results. You can repeat this series of treatments as often as you like. The quick vaginal solution is in three parts. There is a reason why there are three stages that I will explain. Sure you can just do a douche like many books recommend, but from experience in treating many women with this annoying problem; I have found my 3-step protocol to work the best. Skip stage 1 if you feel uncomfortable about it or just can’t access the Manuka honey, but I do urge you to try it at least once. You will be pleasantly surprised at just how amazingly effective this 3-stage protocol is.

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Because it works very well and gives immediate relief. The three stages are best used in succession, try not to skip a stage and you can increase or decrease the duration of each stage depending on how much time you have, the severity of the condition and your experience level of using this effective protocol.

  • Stage 3 Soothe Irritation, Calm Itching and Burning Skin.

In the next few posts, we’ll outline each of these phases.

Yeast Infection Diagnosis, Yeast Infection Treatment

Understanding the Candida Crusher Symptom Tracker

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beauty woman faceAfter treating countless patients with yeast infections over the years, I found it pointless to ask them how they feel a week or two after treatment because I know what most are going to say. Doctor, I’m not feeling much better!

Chronic candida patients generally have been feeling bad for several months or even several years, and most will tell me at their initial follow-up visit “Eric, I don’t feel much better, in fact I feel even worse”.

People don’t generally recover in a linear fashion from bad to good, there are lots of ups and downs along the way. And, every candida patient I have seen has a different expectation of a recovery.

It is really handy to always test and measure the effectiveness of your treatment, just like it is when you plan anything in your life- whether it be an extension you are building on your house or an overseas holiday. Start by writing it down and planning it; the preparation and timing are most important.

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If you get things right and plan your course carefully, you will be able to track your rate of progress and make adjustments along the way to keep you right on target.

What is the point in recommending a treatment, and then having no system in place to measure the patient’s response with? What are the mini and major milestones a patient is making along the path to recovery?

If you are going off track it will be easier to get back on track if you have some method to help you guide the way. When you start to treat candida, you need to see what symptoms get better and which ones get worse. This will naturally allow you to understand which direction you are heading and will allow you to fine tune your treatment and get those positive results you are looking for faster.

I have found that some practitioners are just happy to adopt a “let’s just treat the patient and see what happens” approach. This is fine, but you may or may not get the results you are looking for. But by initiating a treatment and then tracking the patient’s responses over the course of several weeks, months or even years, you will really understand what is going on; and so will the patient. Their confidence will grow in their treatment program as they can actually see what is going on. This will increase compliance and keep somebody on track longer, rather than relying on a hit and miss approach. I have found the Candida Symptom Tracker to be an excellent motivational tool, and nothing is more important for patients to understand, experience, and witness for themselves that their symptoms are actually improving.

If you want to measure you progress and fine-tune your prescriptions and optimize your treatment program, then you will want to adopt some sort of system whereby you can measure and track your progress, and also your lack of it. And that is where my Candida Symptom Tracker comes in handy.

List you major symptoms on the left-hand side of the sheet. Now, enter a score in column A, ranging from 0 – 3. This is how the grading works:

  • 0 – No problem, you don’t experience any problems here.
  • 1 – Mild problem, something you may experience once or twice a week and is reasonably under control.
  • 2 – Moderate problem, it annoys you but is tolerable and you experience it several times a week or maybe even daily.
  • 3 – Major problem. This is really annoying you and you want it gone fast. Chances are the reason you bought the Candida Crusher book was to learn how to get rid of one or several grade 3 symptoms. This could be vaginal thrush, debilitating fatigue or it could be an itch or a terrible stomach pain and indigestion.

Just print the Candida Symptom Tracker and use it accordingly. This sheet has the common symptoms down the left column, and down the bottom there is a space for your own particular symptoms. At the top of each column, you enter the date and at the bottom leave a row empty so that you can add the scores up for that particular day to see how you are going. Scores increasing mean no improvement, scores decreasing mean improvement, simple.

Some patients also like to keep a food diary and others like to correlate a particularly high (or low) score with an event like going to a wedding (where they consumed cake, alcohol, etc.) that caused an aggravation. Here you can add special short notes like “menstrual cycle started” or “started to take probiotics” or “got a cold”, “my teen crashed my car”, “argument with husband”, etc.

These are the factors that influence the total scores and can give you a good indication of what influences the way you feel and how you have responded to treatment or lifestyle.

Keep the Candida Symptom Tracker on your refrigerator under a magnet so that it is always handy and learn to fill in the sheet for convenience sake at about the same time each week, fortnight or whenever you complete the test.

I cannot emphasize the importance of tracking your symptoms on the Candida Crusher Program; it is one of the most important aspects of your recovery. By tracking your treatment including any dietary and lifestyle changes you have made, you will be able to accurately judge the impact of your treatment on your individual symptoms by looking at the scoring as time goes by. If you are on track, you should notice that the grade 3 symptoms will eventually become 2, and then finally a grade 1 as the weeks roll by and turn to months.

This will tell you that as the candida yeast numbers decline, major symptoms are improving and will eventually turn to minor symptoms. Your self-confidence and compliance to the program will increase a lot which will help you improve even quicker.

On the other hand, the Candida Symptom Tracker is also a handy tool to let you know if things aren’t working out the way you had hoped for. If your scores are not declining, then this could well be an alarm signal that either your health problems are not candida related, or you are not committing adequately to the program or the treatments and/or products you are using are inadequate. You have invested your time and money into wanting to conquer yeast, and this is one powerful way to track your results.

I would like to mention again, at the risk of repeating myself, that you should not be expecting a miracle cure within a few months of starting the program if your condition is quite severe or of a very long duration. Your scores may even go from 1 or 2 to a 3 with some symptoms as you could aggravate initially with treatment, especially if die-off occurs and maybe with a detoxification you undertake as well.

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So remember, in an ideal world your symptoms are bad and getting better. In the real world however, your symptoms may initially go from bad to worse before they improve. I just thought I’d remind you again. There is nothing wrong with repeating myself. I just want you to understand this crucial point because at some stage you may become disappointed or disillusioned if your yeast infection is chronic.

I can remember on more than one occasion telling a candida patient to hang in there and that the light at the end of the tunnel does not necessarily signify the head lamp of an oncoming train, but rather a glimmer of light in the distance that will signify hope of an eventual full recovery! When you do recover, and eventually you should, you will have learned a few skills along the way, and one of them is not to give up that easily on yourself. This will hold you in good measure in the years ahead as you age and face and no doubt will then face plenty more health challenges to come.

Pharmaceutical Drugs, Yeast Infection Treatment

Drugs Are Centred Around The LD-50 Rating And Can Perhaps even Kill

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Primobolan-Strongest-Oral-SteroidSeveral years ago I had major success with a patient who was suffering from severe asthma. This was a lady in her late 60’s who was taking six (yes, 6) anibiotics in a rotational fashion to conquer her respiratory tract infections she was getting because of her excessive and ridiculous dependence on steroidal “puffer” asthma drugs. Immuno-suppressive drugs are just that, they suppress immune function and the patient becomes increasingly at risk of all manner of acute and chronic infections. Christine was one of the first patients to begin a combined regime of an inhaled steroid and beta-antagonist drug (Ventolin) in New Zealand in the 1960’s.

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Chris had developed a disease called Cushing’s disease from her excessive and continuous reliance on steroid drugs for her breathing problems. I at once recognized her need for adrenal treatment due to her 40+ years of drugs such as antibiotics, various inhaled steroids and the Ventolin. We began Christine on adrenal fatigue treatment at once, utilizing Dr. Wilson’s Adrenal Fatigue Program. After 6 months of treatment, results were evident, but after one year of treatment ALL the antibiotics had been discontinued and we were starting to reduce her dependence on those toxic drugs. The results were mind-blowing, and to this day Christine remains on of my most successful cases after being in practice for twenty five years.

The amazing thing is that each month Christine’s peak-flow volumes were increasing, and this was accurately measured and determined after spirometer testing to assess her lung function by her respiratory physician. A spirometer is a device which is used to measure the flow of breath in and out of the lungs, during this test the patient breathes in and out of a tube connected to the spirometer so that lung function can be assessed. I received a phone call from her doctor in fact, a respiratory specialist physician who wanted to know “What on earth I was recommending this patient”, as he had “never seen an asthmatic ever improve her lung function so rapidly.” When I told him that I was using some of the best dietary supplements ever created that specifically target the patient’s stress axis (hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands) his comment was to keep using them, as they were obviously doing the job, and not to discontinue therapy because it was most beneficial to the patient. My reply was, “Well doctor, why don’t you use this therapy on your adrenally depleted patients, those you have placed on steroidal drugs for many years.” And his response? Wait for it, you won’t believe it however it is without a doubt 100% EXACTLY what he said to me….

“I wish I could, but we can’t use anything but pharmaceutical drugs in hospital”

Did you know that all pharmaceutical drugs are based on what we call the LD-50 rating? What does this mean? Well you may be shocked to discover that LD means “lethal dose”. That’s right, LD-50 is the amount, if given all at once, will cause the death of half (50%) of a group of test animals. This is one way of measuring the short-term acute toxicity (read: poisoning) of a chemical substance. Most often these tests are run on mice and rats, and the LD-50 rating is expressed as the amount of drug given per 100 grams (rats or mice) or kilograms of larger animals they poison and kill, like dogs, rabbits or monkeys. The drugs are given to the poor unsuspecting animals either by direct application to their skin or given by mouth. It is cruel and inhumane and to me reeks to me of horror experimentation, but these “Frankenstein-like” experiments are part of what we call “medical science”.

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The drug company who make Botox, injects many mice with Botox until it finds a dose at which half of all animals die. This is then designated to be a “rouge gauge of the potential harm” to humans. Martin Stephens, Vice President for Animal Research at the Human Society of the United States, says: It’s as bad as it gets, poisoning animals to death.” Allergan officials say they have “no choice”. Without a government authorized safety test which does not use animals, an organization speaker says, lethal dose 50 “is by default the required test.”

 But why study LD-50 ratings?

Pharmaceutical drugs have a wide range of effects on our health, and most all drugs create “side-effects” ranging from mild headaches, varied digestive problems right through to death. Depending on the type of chemical used in a drug, there are many different kinds of toxicity tests that may be required. Did you know that in the USA, dietary supplements cannot be classified as drugs, because they cannot be LD-50 rated? A drug needs to be able to kill an animal before it can be called a pharmaceutical drug. And then the drug company packages it up neatly and your doctor gives it to you. And then you come to my clinic complaining of the “side-effects” from this LD-50 rated chemical concoction, a drug that will kill when given in increasing concentrations to an animal.

 Who Developed The LD-50 Rating?

The LD-50 rating test was developed in 1927 by J.W.Trevan in order to discover a way to estimate the potential toxicity of chemicals and drugs used at the time. Trevan developed the LD-50 because the use of “death as a target” was a convenient way to compare the toxicity of various chemicals that poisoned the body in different ways.  Although some new methods are being developed to determine the potential toxicity of a chemical substance, the truth of the matter is that many thousands of animals are poisoned to death each year in the name of science. Many still die slow, cruel and unimaginable deaths.

The Quantal (Death) Test

As you can see, drugs are based on a rating which determines that a particular dose can and will create unwanted effects, and that increasing doses actually kill the animal that takes them (whether it be a mouse, rat, rabbit, dog, monkey or human). The LD-50 rating is a cruel and inhumane way to test the ability of a chemical to cause toxicity, and because different chemicals cause different effects, it is difficult to compare the toxic capabilities of one chemical to another. Some chemicals are more neurotoxic (nerves), others are more hepatotoxic (liver) and others yet others are more toxic to the kidney. To measure the potential of toxicity or intensity of these chemicals in a living organism, it is important to distinguish the toxic capabilities of each individual chemical by measuring how much of this chemical is required to cause death. This type of test is known as a “quantal” test because it measures an effect that will either “occur” or “not occur”. In other words, the animal will either die or live.

But wait a minute, what if an animal is still alive after an LD-50 test, but is now a poisoned animal? What if a disease in time develops such as a cancer as a result of these chemicals? Has this ever occurred to you, that by taking a pharmaceutical drug on a daily basis, for years on end, that it may be actually be poisoning you? What if you are taking several drugs concomitantly, of which no studies have ever been completed on their combined LD rating?

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Perhaps it’s time to rethink the use of such “medicines”, chemical drugs classified and rated under a system which establishes the ability of that chemical to actually kill a living organism – stone cold dead.

“Doctors give drugs, of which they know very little, into bodies, of which they know even less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” – Voltaire