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Candida Question #48 How Long It Takes For Fluconazole To Work?

Good day, Erick Bakker here, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher with another frequently asked question. This one regards a pharmaceutical drug of fluconazole, an anti-fungal drug that many people are familiar with.

The way for me to answer that question would be to ask you, have you taken it before? What results did you get with it before? What’s the shape of your body? What dosage are you taking? What’s the health of your digestive system when you take it? How bad is your yeast infection?

There are many variables here. But fluconazole doesn’t take that long to work. It can work very quickly, a matter of days. My concern with fluconazole is your body soon gets used to this drug and when the fungus comes back, it will come back stronger and mutate requiring longer fluconazole usage, high dosages of fluconazole, and some of my patients take this drug once a week for years on end; a ridiculous thing to do.

If something works and then stops working, you should stop taking it. You don’t keep taking higher and higher dosages. Fluconazole has a big effect on the body in general. It can create nausea and liver toxicity and multiple side effects. It’s not something I recommend that you take. There are many strong natural things that you can take which counter yeast infections.

I’d like you to have a look in my book, Candida Crusher, Chapter 7, particularly Section 4 of that book where I explain about the special foods and also the special dietary supplements which are going to counter your yeast infection much more effectively than fluconazole without side effects but also without the resistance that the yeast will build toward these things.

Candida Question #47 Can Antibiotics Cause Yeast Infections?

This is a question that many people ask. Many people do take antibiotics, unfortunately, and in my opinion, antibiotic drugs are one of the number one causes of chronic yeast infections. Particularly, the prolonged and inappropriate and excessive use of broad spectrum antibiotics.

Antibiotics are prescribed on quite a large and wide scale to kill disease-causing bacteria, but unfortunately, they also kill healthy, normal, flora throughout the body and they can actually encourage yeast infections in many people. So antibiotics are implicated and, in my mind, would be one of the prime causes of yeast infections and recurring chronic yeast infections in many patients.

One factor that many people don’t realize is did you know that most antibiotic drugs are actually themselves developed from chemicals found in fungi species. So fungi actually create certain chemicals which kill bacteria around them. So by using certain chemicals and creating drugs from them, we can effectively kill bacteria yet allow the yeast to proliferate. So this is one reason why antibiotics are so effective at killing bacteria but allowing their own species to thrive. So it’s a little known fact.

Another little known fact which you may not be aware of is the use of antibiotics in commercial meat; poultry for example, chickens, and commercial chickens contain many different types of antibiotics. When you see how poultry are kept crammed in cages, it’s not hard to see why they give them antibiotics to prevent diseases. So if you’re eating commercial poultry, I recommend you go to Wikipedia and look up antibiotics in chicken or poultry. You might be quite surprised what you find.

So, yes they are. They’re certainly implicated in the development and progression of a yeast infection. In fact, Dr. William Cook wrote extensively about antibiotics in his book, The Yeast Infection. It’s a good book and well worth the read for you.

So avoiding antibiotic drugs is one step in the right direction if you want to avoid yeast infections and particularly if you want to permanently cure your yeast infection.

In my book, Candida Crusher, I’ve written about the 11 main causes of yeast infections, and antibiotic drugs, unfortunately, are on top of the list. So I do hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Candida Question #46 What Is Thrush? Is It Yeast Infection?

I get this question asked a lot.

In fact, vaginal thrush is one of the commonest reasons many Candida patients have consulted me over the years. And it’s been estimated that worldwide 75 percent of women some time in their lives have vulva vaginitis and probably over half of them have more than one episode of this condition.

Some experts believe that 15 to 20 percent of all women in the world have chronic or recurrent vaginal Candidiasis or thrush. There are a number of names given to this condition. The most common is a vaginal yeast infection or thrush; vulva vaginal Candidiasis, Moniliasis, vulva vaginal thrush, or as I said, thrush. So this really is a yeast infection, but there are many terms used by many women to describe this annoying complaint.

You’ve got to understand that the vagina is quite a complex ecological environment with a high concentration of many different types of microorganisms. Between 40 to 80 percent of women are found to have at least 5 to 10 different organisms which can be cultured from the vaginal fluid, including lactobacilli, cornea bacteria, streptococci, and Candida albicans.

A normal healthy vaginal fluid is generally whitish and milky in appearance and it consists of secretions from the sabacal glands and various cells that line the vagina and sabacal surfaces. This discharge can vary quite widely throughout a woman’s menstrual cycle. And you’ll normally find that the discharge will be more profuse and thicker just before ovulation and found to be thinner and scanter in the luteal phase or just after menstruation occurs.

In my book, Candida Crusher, in Chapter 5, in particular, you’ll find a two-stage approach for cleansing in the vaginal area, one I call a kill and a build phase. You’ll find this particularly effective in vaginal thrush, so it’s certainly something that I recommend that you try if you’ve got his condition and you want to get on top of this condition.