Author: Eric Bakker

Can male yeast infection kill you is the question I’ve been asked by a few guys over the years. Well, it doesn’t really kill you, but it probably will kill the quality of your life. In extreme cases, a Candida yeast infection can kill a guy if he’s got, for example, if he’s HIV positive, he’s got full-blown Aids, and he’s very immune compromised. I’ve got no doubt that in a lot of those cases, people will die of a simple yeast infection.

Many people with severe immune compromised illness have got Candida. If we look at people with really bad hepatitis, for example, and I’m sure in cases like Ebola. People that get this Ebola virus get very sick and will end up contracting a bad yeast infection.

Candida yeast infections are quite well known in hospitals – to be involved in a lot of cases of people who are in their dying stages. Mainly because it’s an opportunistic organism that will take over knowing the opportunity is right. When the immune system is very low, Candida will go very high and that can be enough to take a person out, to kill them. While Candida can’t kill you directly, it can certainly be there in the latter stages of quite a serious illness when you’re immune compromised.

I would say more likely it kills the quality of your life, and it certainly killed the quality of my life in my ‘20s for ages when I had a lot of depression and anxiety and severe jock itch. It made me feel terrible. I had quite bad depression and anxiety from this jock itch that I had. It was really a bad – particularly when the doctor basically just didn’t believe me and gave me these stupid creams that didn’t work.

In those situations, you can get pretty down and out about it. But killing you, no, it’s not really a disease that will kill you acutely as such.

So I hope that answers your question.

Thank you for looking at one of my frequently asked questions on Candida today. A question I’ve got asked recently by a patient was can Lufenuron cause Candida die off? I don’t think it causes die off as such, but I do think that it can make a person feel sick in several other ways.

You need to be careful when you hear the words “die off” that you don’t associate every kind of aggravation regarding a Candida treatment necessarily and see it as die off. Die off is really a particular reaction called a “Herxheimer Reaction” where Candida dies off rapidly and releases particular toxins that can make you feel quite sick. This happens in a minority of cases. It’s not really as common as you think. I have seen die off occurring in patients, but anyone who starts feeling a headache or sick or a bit spaced out, a little bit tired or weak will automatically assume that it’s Candida die off when, in fact, it’s not at all.

There are many reasons why you can feel like this and some of those reasons, for example, are often linked with the change of diet, when you include or exclude certain foods in your diet, or you take things like probiotics. You can often make changes to your lifestyle and diet that can make you feel not well and then you can falsely assume that these things are die off reactions when, in fact, they’re not.

You need to be very careful with a product that’s designed to kill fleas in people and that’s Lufenuron or this chitin synthesis inhibitor. It’s been linked up really with making you feel sick in several different ways. I believe that it creates liver toxicity with a lot of people like certain types of pharmaceutical drugs do. It’s also been linked up with causing leaky gut and, unfortunately, affecting the production of beneficial bacteria as well, so it’s not something I really endorse now or like patients to take.

My expert advice is to avoid products like Lufenuron and these chitin synthesis inhibitors. If they really did work, I would be promoting them all over the place, but I’ve had way too many patients contact me with massive side effects and some even hospitalized after taking this flea-killing drug. My advice is to steer clear from Lufenuron.

Thanks for tuning in.

I’d like to answer a question today that I get asked quite regularly. Can jock itch be transferred or passed on from a guy to a woman? Is it contagious? Can it move from one person to another?

Well, it can in some circumstances, but it’s not really likely, and with proper hygiene, it doesn’t really occur. Woman can develop jock itch and guys can develop jock itch. The most likely way that it’s going to be passed from one person to another is by sexual or intimate contact. It is a possibility, but it’s not generally likely. Particularly if the person, the recipient, has not got jock itch and he or she is definitely into hygiene or cleanliness. It’s not usually going to be a problem.

While it can be passed on, it’s not usually likely to be passed on. Not unlike a condition of venereal warts, for example. There are other types of conditions, herpes, and genital herpes. And these conditions are much more likely to be passed on intimately, I believe, than jock itch is.

Jock itch is a condition called tinea cruris. Athlete’s foot is tinea pedis. In other videos, I’ll talk a little bit about the link between Athlete’s foot and jock itch because it can be sometimes a problem.

But the passing on, not usually an issue. If you’ve got jock itch and you’re a guy, just check out my other videos on jock itch because there are a lot of natural solutions for getting rid of this really awful and annoying condition. You can cure this thing. Especially if it’s like really bad and you want to get rid of it and you considered to treat the internals, as well as the groin region.

So I hope that answers your question about passing it from one person to another. Thank you for tuning in.