Candida Yeast Symptoms and Diet
July 8, 2008 Candida Yeast No CommentsCandida, is a yeast infection which lowers natural immunity and can lead to chronic gastrointestinal, nervous, and endocrine disorders.
It most commonly affects the vagina, the mouth, and the skin. Oral thrush, another yeast infection, appears as painless white patches in the mouth or throat that come off when eating or brushing the teeth. It commonly affects babies, young children, and the elderly.
Normally, fungal organisms are kept in check by bacteria that also live in symbiosis in the gastrointestinal tract and other systems in the body. Yeast outbreaks are primarily the result of consuming foods that create a dark, moist environment in which the fungi can spread. Dietary extremes, including meat, chicken, eggs, and other strong animal foods, as well as sugar and refined sweets, milk and light dairy foods, tropical vegetables, too much fruit and juice, polished grains and flour, create the underlying acidic condition that weaken the blood, lymph, and other body fluids and accelerate the spread of potentially harmful yeast, bacteria, and viruses.
Antibiotics are often a contributing factor, either as a result of overmedication or through consumption of beef, chickens, and other animal foods that are produced with antibiotic-laced feed. AIDS patients, in particular, are at high risk for candida because of past or present antibiotic use or lowered natural immunity.
