Candida and Dietary Supplement Questions
How long do I need to Take the Supplements for?
Can Vitamins cause Yeast Infections?
How much is this going to cost me? I have spent a small Fortune on Dietary Supplements and Practitioners over the years.
Can a Probiotic cure my Yeast Infection?
Eric, what about Product X? I read on the Internet it is the “best”.
Can I take my usual Supplements while doing the Candida Crusher program ?
Answers
How long do I need to Take the Supplements for?
It depends on what dietary supplements you take. There are three types of dietary supplements I recommend when you have a yeast infection, and these are important types to use:
1. Products which inhibit the reproduction of yeast infections and optimize digestion
2. Products which actively kill yeast infections
3. Products which repopulate the digestive system
The duration of supplementation depends on the severity of your yeast infection, take my yeast infection survey to determine whether you have a mild, moderate or severe yeast infection. I like patients to stay on the supplements for as long as it takes to get well, and then they no longer need supplements. In my experience, this is where many practitioners let their patients down – the patient will be placed on a candida kill product or probiotic for a few weeks or month or two, and then they stop. This could be due to either an improvement (and then the patient feels that there is no need for the supplement as they are “better” again), it may be a cost issue or a lack of follow-up or one of several other factors, but the important thing to remember is that it takes time to get well, ranging from weeks to several months. I typically have found that JUST as the patient is beginning to derive benefit from a dietary supplement it is discontinued! Is it a cost issue? Then simply reduce the dosage and take over a prolonged period of time, a lesser dosage is better than no dosage.
Have you been currently using other dietary supplement? You may want to think about moving to the brand I recommend, I have discovered certain products from the USA which are the best I have found for patients with yeast infections. Be sure to read the dietary supplement comparison page. If you are improving with these supplements then don’t be in a hurry to stop. If money is an issue, reduce you dosage and continue. If you are NOT improving, however, then you will need to re-assess whether your current yeast infection products are having the desired effect, maybe you are you wasting your money by taking the wrong (or ineffective) supplements? Read the Candida Crusher book about the best supplements and why.
Can Vitamins cause Yeast Infections?
Not at all. Yeast infection is caused by yeast overgrowth due to an imbalance in the flora of a person’s digestive system. For example, excess sugars in the diet or refined carbohydrate foods will cause candida, or because the person took an antibiotic which destroyed his or her health intestinal bacteria allowing yeasts to thrive, but vitamins and minerals will not be a cause. Vitamins don’t have anything to do with yeast infections.
How much is this going to cost me? I have spent a small Fortune on Dietary Supplements and Practitioners over the years.
The Candida Crusher program shouldn’t cost much money, I generally tell people to expect to pay between three to seven dollars a day on average for dietary supplements, but this will lessen a great deal as time goes by, particularly after the first two to three months. The thing to bear in mind is that you will actually be saving money by making dietary changes – you will be eating in more and out less. This is a significant cost saving for many people. Just work out how much you will save if you stop buying take-out foods for a few months, stop buying alcohol and any sweet treats like chocolate. It is amazing how people view a health program designed to optimise their health and well-being as being costly, when in fact it is the lifestyle contributing to their health challenges which is actually the costly factor, this is what is producing the expensive urine – a bottle of wine and a take-out meal. And more so, it is more likely that the continuation of these poor health habits which may one day prove to be partly responsible for the development of a disease of modern civilisation such as diabetes, heart disease or cancer. Did you know that most people spend more money in the last three months of their life actually trying to prolong their life, than they do in their entire life on health-care? Please don’t view a few dollars a day spent right now on preventive health-care as being “wasteful”. See it rather as in investment in your healthy future, you take nothing with you after all, so do enjoy every moment you are alive and view money as a tool which can always be replaced. Time can never be replaced, and all we really have when you think about it is time, time to spend with those we love and care about, and isn’t it worth feeling at your best in your allotted time? Of course it is, so I want to hear NO MORE about costs and preventative health, it will be the wisest money you will have spent, believe me!
Can a Probiotic cure my Yeast Infection?
Although a good probiotic can be very effective in preventing a candida overgrowth in the first place, there is certainly NO evidence to suggest that any probiotic can actually cure candida. A top quality probiotic can be most effective rather than most retail purchased products, which I have found to be therapeutically of little value. As soon as the candida fungus gets more wide-spread in your body you will notice that probiotics provide minimal impact except if you start using a superior eradication supplement as well as work diligently out on diet changes. It is the combined and consistent effort placed on diet, supplements and lifestyle that will win the day in more than 90% of the most difficult cases I have seen.
Eric, what about Product X? I read on the Internet it is the “best”.
As you can well imagine, I have tried just about every single dietary supplement for candida yeast infections over the past two decades and found that there are only a few which stand head and shoulders above the rest. In Chapter 6 you can read all about “The Right Supplements and Herbal Medicines to Take”.
Can I take my usual Supplements while doing the Candida Crusher program ?
Yes, you should continue taking your supplements and all medication as directed. In most cases I get the patient to only take what is essential, like prescribed pharmaceutical medications, and to discontinue any dietary supplements unless they are deemed absolutely necessary. It is best not to complicate your program, I have seen some patients take up to (and over) twenty or more nutritional and herbal supplements over the course of a day. It is best to stay with the recommendations I make in chapter 6 under “The Right Supplements and Herbal Medicines to Take”. If you have any questions then ask your health-care professional who can best guide you. Keep it simple is the best way to go, that way it will not only work out a lot more cost effective, but you will also be in a much better position to be able to work out what supplement is working the best for you and when to increase, decrease or even stop taking certain products. Please be sure to read Chapter 6 for much more information regarding what to take and when. Believe me, I have tried every product on the market and now only recommend a few which work consistently – time and again.
Well the tampon itelsf cannot CAUSE a yeast infection, but if you are sensitive/allergic to them, they could cause some irritation/inflamation which could make you more likely to get a yeast infection. So if you have that kind of sensitivity, using them once could be enough to give you trouble. But if you’re not sensitive to them, use them all you like. I would just say if you have a history of being sensitive to chemicals, soaps, scents, etc, stay away from them. But if not, give them a try, that’s all you can do.
Registered Nurse here; No Immunocal does not cause yeast infections. Monistat is eexellcnt for treating yeast infections, as well as eating yogurt with live bacteria, and drinking buttermilk, for buttermilk also contains live good cultures of bacteria. Both of the food items help to restore normal flora to the vagina and this assists to rid the yeast from your body.\Thank you allowing me to address this well written and thought out question.
Monistat is excellent for treating yeast infections? YES, but there is never a cure, just drug-based symptom suppression. ALL Candida species can (and most always will) develop drug-resistance in time. If you work in a hospital, you will be well acquainted with MRSA no doubt. Drugs to fight and cure a yeast infection permanently are as USELESS as going to war to “win”the battle. Wars never, ever, solve any conflict in a permanent sense, and nor do pharma drugs to cure a chronic and recurring vaginal infection. I’m sorry Elissama, but my experience spanning twenty + years of treating chronic vaginal thrush differs from yours. Poor immunity does and in many cases underpins a chronic yeast infection, it “handicaps” the body’s ability to beat the yeast infection.
Hi Madhav, If you have a yeast infection AND use tampons “all you like”, it may not be a good thing. Pads may be a better option to stop any internal irritation, and you can alternate between them both and medicate them (as I’ve outlined in Chapter 5 of Candida Crusher) to see which method works best for you.
My 9 year old daughter has Candida and we have been told she needs to stay off all sugars including fruits and sweetners for up to a year (her result was 6 out of 10, 10 being the highest) is this right as we are day two into the candida diet and am thinking this is going to be impossible.
I have had a problem with yeast infections for a long time. Well, I hadn’t had one for about 7 years or so and then I got on the Pill for the first time and I ended up getting yeast infections and bladder infections worse than I ever had.For about 2 months, I had a bladder infection one week, yeast infection the next, bladder infection, period/yeast infection it was AWFUL and so painful. I take cranberry pills and I drink 100% cranberry juice when I think I’m getting a bladder infection and that seems to help.Well, I only had a 3 month supply for the Pill, and I moved, so I didn’t get a refill. I immediately stopped having yeast infections and bladder infections so I realized it may have something to do with the Pill. Well, I’m back on it and bam, I’m getting a yeast infection.What should I do about this? It’s so frustrating. And should I make my fiancee do whatever I’m doing to make sure that he isn’t reinfecting me? I’ve already gotten tested for STD’s and I’m clean.HELP!
Hi Muhtassim, you are best to speak to your doctor about birth control. Your fiancee should stay on condoms for some time until you have completely cleared your yeast AND bacterial infection. He should also observe cleanliness and hygiene. Speak with your doctor, and go and see an expert about all your birth control options.
Hi Debbie, Eric here. You need to speak with a candida expert, it sounds like you’ve been talking with amateurs. Somebody who knows and understands what it is like to have a child with a yeast infection. You are welcome to consult with me, you will find a link on the homepage of this site which will show you how to organize this.
@Debbie,
Who told you to keep her off sugar for a year? If your family doctor recommended a diet then I suggest you follow his/her advice. The hardest part with Candida is sticking with the diet. Have you read Eric’s Candida Diet article?
Antibiotics will kill bacteria other than the bacteriathat are giving you UTIs this includes beneficial bacteria that naturally inhabit your vagina (I am assuming you are female). Without the protection from these beneficial bacteria, harmful microorganisms such as those that can cause yeast infections able grow. So chances are that the two are interrelated. There are many causes of UTIs but the most common causes are fecal contamination (which is why you should always wipe away from your vagina) or contamination from sexual intercourse if you are sexually active. It is usually a good idea to urinate after having intercourse to help flush away any bacteria that might’ve gotten pushed into your urethra.Additionally it is imperative that you Totally complete your prescription antibiotics course, even when signs and symptoms improve. This is because the infection is not entirely gone, and will possible reemerge (maybe even with antibiotic resistant organisms) at a later date.
Thanks Aditya. Antibiotic usage recurrently (in most cases) is stupid, senseless and only creates drug-resistant strains. Look at hospitals and the rise of the “superbugs”. One day there will be certain bacterial strains that are 100% completely ALL drug resistant, in fact we are nearly there. Peole need to look at the mileau, their internal environment, and stop wasting their time “fighting and killing” bacteria. I certainly believe in sanitation and hygeine, don’t get me wrong, and your wiping comments are most valid. What happens with recurrence of symptoms with resistant strains, more antibiotics? Where does it stop? The more drugs a patient takes, the higher the likelihood of MORE infections, both bacterial AND yeast related. Drop those drugs I say and look at a more holistic and natural approach.
Hello. I have been suffering from yeast infections for long long time. I was prescribed a 7 day fluconazole course. But few months later the infection was back again. Then the doc prescribed clotrimazole vaginal gel, which i didnt use coz i was very afraid and had difficulty inserting that. The infections dont seem to go away. I am on a no-sugar diet for the past 1 and a half years. That too doesnt seem to help. Should i use the vaginal cream? Or is there any other way out? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Vidya, I can highly recommend that you read the 5th chapter of my book Candida Crusher, it has a unique Candida vaginal yeast infection protocol you will not find elsewhere, and the information in this chapter has helped an incredible amount of women eradicate their yeast infection. If you can’t afford to buy the book (a visit to your doctor will cost more and will often be a WASTE of your time), then please read more information on this site.
Hello Dr. Bakker,
I’ve been suffering with what I believe is a candida overgrowth for about 2 years now. I refuse to go to the doctors because they always run the same test with negative results and then they just shrug their shoulders with no answers to my symptoms. I purchased your book in hopes that I can find a solution to my problems. The book is pretty easy to read but I still have a problem understanding what supplements I should be taking during my Candida Crusher diet. I read that you have a line of supplements coming out soon but in the mean time is there any other supplements similar to yours that you would recommend instead of having to purchase everything individually which is what my understanding is from reading your book. I could be wrong just your line of supplements sounds like it encapsulates many of your recommended supplements into 4 or 5 different pills.
Best regards,
Rene Camarena
Hi Rene,
Thanks for your inquiry. You will need a good anti-fungal/anti bacterial product, a probiotic, a digestive enzyme and a multi vitamin. Those are the pro=imary products. My products are not out as yet.
Hello Dr. Bakker,
I am looking to buy the 5 supplements that you recommend in your book Candida Crusher, i.e.
Candida Crusher Formula
Candida Crusher Multy
Candida Crusher Digestive enzyme
Candida Crusher Probiotic
Candida Crusher Omega 3
but I can not find them in the website. Are they available at all?
Thank you!
Best regards,
M. Ivanova
Hello Dr. Bakker,
Can we use Apple Cider Vinegar for candida?
Hi Eric
How many months is the minimum of taking canxida remove , for example taking 2 pills daily i see quite good results
Best Regards
Paul
In dealing with a intestinal Candida ingestion, shall one use Prebiotics, Probiotics or both? Also, when should you start including this in the treatment process?