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Pharmaceutical Drugs are commonly prescribed and taken by many millions world wide. They create unwanted side-effects and should be carefully considered n their use, especially long-term.

Can Amoxicillin Cause Yeast Infections?

Amoxicillin is a penicillin-type antibiotic, meaning that it is made from the same type of mold as penicillin. It fights bacteria by inhibiting bacterial cell wall formation. This type of antibiotic is most effective against actively growing bacteria. We did numerous case studies which you can watch on our youtube channel or below.

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Amoxicillin is commonly prescribed to treat many types of bacterial infections, such as sinusitis, bronchitis, gonorrhea, ear infections, as well as urinary tract infections. Dentists commonly prescribe it to prevent complications after dental or gum surgery for people with heart valve abnormalities.

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Standard dosing of Amoxicllin for adults is 250 to 500 mg orally three times a day for 7 to 10 days or 500 to 875 mg orally twice a day.

Many people have severe hypersensitivity or anaphylactic reactions to oral penicillins. Make sure you tell your doctor if this is the case for you.

It is also common to experience Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) after taking antibiotics because antibiotics alter normal gut flora. You must follow a proper diet during the course of antibiotics and even after.

How does Amoxicillin cause yeast infections?

Although Amoxicillin can be very helpful in combating bacterial infections, it also kills good bacteria that keep numbers of other undesirable micro-organisms in check.

Candida albicans is a fungus that is naturally present on the skin and on mucous membranes: the mouth, throat, and vagina. When Amoxicillin is taken, especially for a prolonged period of time, it kills good bacteria that keep Candida from spreading. A yeast infection results when Candida albicans proliferates in the vagina because there are not enough good bacteria to limit its presence.

This video by Eric Bakker explains it in much better detail.

What can you do to prevent a yeast infection while taking Amoxicillin?

There are some simple steps you can take to prevent a yeast infection while taking Amoxicillin:

  • Avoid using vaginal soaps and douches (unless otherwise you are following Eric’s douching protocol), which can dry out the vaginal area and upset the balance of vaginal microflora even further, thereby increasing your susceptibility to getting a yeast infection. Use only mild and unscented soap around the genital area. Thinking about bath? Double-check our yeast infection bath article before you plan a bath.
  • Keep the genital area clean and dry — fungus likes moist conditions.
  • Avoid wearing tight underwear or pants. Wear clean cotton underwear.
  • Eat an alkaline diet consisting mainly of fruits and vegetables. Candida thrives in an acidic environment, so a diet based on fruits and vegetables will make your body more alkaline and discourage candida overgrowth.
  • Take an oral probiotic supplement. Antibiotics kill both harmful and beneficial bacteria, so taking a probiotic helps to restore the beneficial bacteria your body needs. Just make sure you take the probiotic capsule a couple of hours after you take each dose of Amoxicillin so that they don’t interfere with each other and negate each other’s effects.

What natural treatment can you take after the round of antibiotic?

Do you have a yeast infection after taking a course of Amoxicillin? If you don’t want to take antifungal medications, here are some things you can do to treat your yeast infection naturally and also prevent its recurrence.

  • A systematic review published in the Journal of Women’s Health in 2011 showed that boric acid vaginal suppositories are a very effective treatment for yeast infections, especially recurrent and chronic ones. Candida glabrata is another species of Candida that causes yeast infections but that does not respond nearly as well to antifungal drugs (azoles) as Candida albicans does. You can make your own suppositories. Just make sure you don’t take them orally!
  • Take probiotics! Probiotics help restore the good bacteria in the body that were destroyed by Amoxicillin, mainly in the colon but also in the vagina and other mucus membranes. Probiotics can be taken orally and/or intravaginally. CanXida Restore is one of the best probiotic formulas available for restoring normal vaginal flora.
  • Herbs are very effective at restoring the body’s healthy terrain. CanXida Remove is a powerful herbal formulation that restores a healthy terrain in the body where good bacteria can thrive to prevent disease.

While there are times when you have no other option other than antibiotics. When you can make sure to consult with your doctor or get second opinion from another doctor before you go on course of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is on the rise and prevention is the best measure.

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If you are suffering from male yeast infections read our article on prevention for further information.

Please share your comments and thoughts on how antibiotics have changed your life?

Difference Between Conventional Medicine and Natural Solution for Candida Yeast Infections

Less than one hundred years ago all health complaints were treated with natural methods, which is today seen as an alternative to science based healthcare.

What was once normal and even practiced by conventional doctors of the day is now frowned upon as fringe medicine.

Modern science and the expensive marketing of powerful and profitable pharmaceutical drugs have ensured that the modern approach is in favor of the drug-based approach. This trend has been slowly but surely reversing the past two decades, as many people are now demanding a more natural and side effect free approach towards their healthcare. While I firmly believe that the conventional science based approach to medicine has its place, conventional treatment relies on powerful chemical based medicines that only suppress symptoms. Natural treatments work more indirectly by strengthening the body’s innate healing responses and in finding the actual causes rather than just relying on treating the symptoms. Many patients come to us seeking assistance with their yeast infections because they have not only become disillusioned with a lack of permanent results, they have become concerned about the risks and potentially serious side effects of the drug-based approach and want to finally get to the root cause of their health problems.

Your health can be improved profoundly with the help of an experienced practitioner of natural medicine or medical doctor who has a good working knowledge of natural medicine. If you want to stay remain under the care of a conventional medical doctor, it is preferable that your doctor has had formal training in natural medicine, and doctors who have had this kind of training have become medical practitioners initially, and then furthered their studies to include nutritional medicine and maybe even herbal medicine and homeopathy. Further they should know how to recognize a candida yeast infection.

You should be able to find an alternative doctor online in your country through a professional association. I have worked in medical clinics for fifteen years and come to know many alternative medicine doctors during that period of time. I can highly recommend any naturopath to spend a few years working alongside doctors to understand the medical system and to learn valuable skills they would otherwise never gain. In addition, it is also preferable that your natural health-care professional has a good understanding and respect for the conventional medical system and will know when to refer you on when necessary.

Today in the 21st century, many people are interested in the best of both worlds, i.e. the benefits that medical sciences as well as natural medicine have to offer combined.

People have become a lot more informed through the Internet these days, and more gentle forms of treatment are generally preferred with the least amount of intervention before powerful drugs or invasive procedures are employed. In this sense it is good to work in conjunction with an experienced naturopath who has undertaken high-level health science based training, or a medical doctor who has undertaken post-graduate natural medicine training. The ultimate is for you to form a relationship with both of these health-care professionals so that you can get a more balanced viewpoint when it comes to the treatment of your yeast infection and associated health problems.

Whichever way your candida yeast infection is treated, it is important for your practitioner to individualize your treatment, because bio-individuality is one of the major factors in achieving a successful course of yeast infection treatment with long lasting benefits to you, the patient.

Although people may share similar signs and symptoms of a yeast infection, some practitioners may try to give all patients with a candida diagnosis virtually an identical form of treatment. I have learned that yeast infection is similar to adrenal fatigue, there is often no single way that even two persons can have exactly the same signs and symptom patterns and therefore be treated identically.

Even identical twins have been found to have a different expression of the same illness. That is why they call a yeast infection a “syndrome”, which is a collection of signs and symptoms that can vary from person to person. And this may create more problems for the medical practitioner than it can for the natural medicine practitioner, because the doctor will treat the disease and its symptoms as individual illnesses, whereas the naturopath will treat the person as an individual and his or her symptoms as a whole.

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

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

Yeast Infection Drug Treatment Chart

Yeast Infection Drug Treatment Chart

Yeast Infection

Common Symptoms

Medical Diagnosis

Medical Treatment

Medical Prevention

Oral Candida (thrush), affects mouth and throat, especially tongue. Discomfort, burning of mouth and throat; changed sense of taste; creamy white or yellowish patches on mouth or throat. Appearance & Symptoms.  Diagnostic tests are utilized when the infection does not go away after treatment. Mouth rinses (Nystatin, Mycostatin). Lozenges (Nystatin, Mycostatin; Clotrimazole, Mycelex). Capsules (fluconazole, Diflucan 100 mg/day or Itraconazole, Sporanox 200 mg/day) Maintain good oral/dental hygiene. Avoid smoking and excess sugar.Weekly fluconazole.
Vaginal (vaginitis, yeast infection thrush, affects vagina and/or vulva Odorous, white-or yellow, creamy discharge. May be burning, swelling and itching. By appearance and symptoms. Diagnostic tests are utilized when the infection does not go away after treatment. Vaginal creams or suppositories (Clotrimazole or Miconazole). Fluconazole oral tablets. Avoid scented soap, bleach and fabric softeners. Wear loose fitting clothing & cotton underwear.Weekly fluconazole
Throat Candida    Can affect the esophagus (feeding tube) Chest pain, nausea and painful swallowing.Usually occurs with oral candida. Examination of oropharynx; endoscopy; culture and histology (cell). Ketoconazole (Nizoral) 200 or 400 mg/day or Fluconazole (Diflucan) at 200 mg once a day. In the event that several cases has occurred, fluconazole preventive treatment may be warranted.
Skin Yeast Infections (usually affects skin in armpits, groin and under breasts) Bright red, uneven eruption in the folds of skin that may be coated with a white membrane; mild burning feeling. By appearance and symptoms. Diagnostic tests are utilized when the infection does not go away after treatment. Creams or ointments applied 2-4 times/day. Products include Clotrimazole Nystatin, ketoconazole, Miconazole, Econazole and Amphotericin B. Keep skin dry.
Systemic Candida (affects organs throughout the body) Can be difficult to diagnose.Common in AIDS patients. Amphotericin B (Fungizone) orally or intravenously.

 

 

Anti-Fungal Drug Resistance

docYeast infection treatments, which fail to respond to conventional anti-fungal drug treatments, have become increasingly reported, just like antibiotic resistant bacterial infections have over the years. There are many people who just don’t seem to respond to the azole class of drugs anymore, such as Fluconazole. This is partly due to the widespread, long-term use of azoles for treating and preventing yeast related health issues.

Medications do have their place at times and are sometimes useful to get rid of first-time yeast infections or major yeast infections, I have noticed that some patients over the years had a successful treatment by their doctor for their yeast infection, and never did the problem recur. But these cases are uncommon, and in most all cases the yeast infection will recur. If you get a recurring yeast infection, then you should seriously consider not using that medication again because it could mean that you are either developing drug resistance, or that you have an underlying problem that hasn’t been addressed. If you use prescription medication every time for a recurrence it means that you are covering up a problem that needs to be fixed. You need to get rid of the yeast problem at its core, the cause needs fixing and not the manifestations of the cause.

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Unfortunately, the doctor’s answer to fungal drug resistance may be to double or treble the dose of what he has prescribed you or alternatively to use a an even more powerful antifungal such as amphotericin B. While this drug is certainly more potent and effective, amphotericin B is considerably more toxic, especially to the kidney. If you are a person with an underlying kidney or liver disease, you will want to avoid the stronger antifungal drugs which result in changes in kidney function tests. Just like a gun with a higher caliber, the stronger the firing power the more likely you will cause more collateral damage.

Recent studies have show that exposure to azole treatment decreases the antifungal activity of amphotericin B. Two other types of antifungal drugs have also been shown to be active against azole-resistant candida yeast infections, they are Voriconazole (Vfend) which showed enhanced activity against fluconazole-resistant candidiasis and another drug called caspofungin (Cancidas) which has also shown activity against azole-resistant strains of candidiasis. No doubt there will be side effects associated with these antifungals as well.

Because of the widespread antifungal drug resistance, taking any pharmaceutical drug to prevent a candida yeast infection is ridiculous and should not be encouraged in my opinion. For example, when fluconazole is used to “prevent” a woman’s yeast infections and then resistance develops, treating any potentially newer and more aggressive yeast infections becomes much more difficult and will often found to be unsuccessful until the drug is discontinued and the kidneys and liver are cleaned up. Azole drug treatments only weaken the body’s immune system and toxify the kidneys and liver, creating many potential additional diseases. It is therefore best never to begin using these azole drugs in the first place, and in most all cases they will not be found to be necessary if the Candida Crusher program is adhered to.

Azole based antifungal drug treatment for chronic yeast infection treatment is certainly not encouraged in my clinic and I have unfortunately seen too many people with recurrent infections who remain on long-term azole therapy to treat and in the hope of preventing yeast infections. In these cases, side effects and drug resistance remains a concern and by the time they see me they still have the yeast infection that has become suppressed, and on top of that present with many side effects from long term drug therapy. There is a better way!

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The Candida Crusher natural approach towards yeast infection eradication is the safest and most effective approach, it is drug and side effect free and will ensure a complete and permanent eradication if followed carefully.