Author: Eric Bakker

I have a question today from a lady in America who wishes to remain anonymous. Can I use Nystatin and Triamcinolone for a yeast infection?

Triamcinolone is a synthetic corticosteroid drug. So a steroid is generally used to suppress the immune system. There are different kinds of steroids you can use. You can use inhaled steroids for asthma, for example. You can use steroids internally like prednisone for different types of autoimmune diseases, lupus, for example, rheumatoid arthritis; steroids can be used for a wide range of different conditions. You can hydrocortisone, a steroid used topically for eczema, which it shouldn’t be used for, but is used for eczema quite often or different types of skin problems, bites or swellings or things like that.
Steroids basically have a very powerful immunosuppressant effect, whereas, the Nystatin is an antifungal. So this patient wants to know if she can use both of those drugs together. It’s not a good idea to start playing those sorts of games with these dangerous pharmaceutical medications.

Nystatin itself is not so bad. I’ve had some reasonably good results with Nystatin with many different patients. I took Nystatin myself back in the ‘80s when I had a severe yeast infection. I found it to be quite effective. When you’re taking about a million units per day for four or five weeks, it can have a big effect on reducing yeast in the body. But I don’t really recommend Nystatin anymore because of the die off which I have seen occur and the severe side effects with some patients. You have to be careful what you take, but when you’re playing a dangerous game of suppressing immunity and taking a pharmaceutical antifungal, the side effects can be quite devastating.

The Triamcinolone, there’s some different names for it I’ll read to you here. The trade names of them can be Kenacort, Aristocort, Kenalog, Tricort, Azmacort, Tricortone, anything with “cort” in it will mean corticosteroid, generally. It’s not really a drug of choice.

I’ll just read out some of the side effects I’ve got on the screen here of Triamcinolone, sore throat, nose bleeds, increased coughing, headache, runny nose, allergic reactions, including rash, itch, swelling, severe dizziness, trouble breathing, palpitations or irregular heartbeat, major insomnia can occur. An additional side effect for some women I’ve known is a prolonged menstrual cycle. We never get these kind of problems with natural products, but all these pharmaceutical drugs come with hefty side effects, so you need to really watch out when you’re taking these drugs. They can make you quite ill. Then you’re going to think you’ve got additional diseases that need treatment and, of course, the doctor will conveniently have another drug for that so-called illness, which it isn’t at all.

No. I don’t recommend you take these drugs. I think you should follow principles of natural Candida control and management. Go to yeastinfection.org and, if you want to, get my book Candida Crusher, which has got an incredible amount of information in it on how you can get rid of this skin condition which you’ve got without the use of toxic pharmaceutical medications.

I hope that answers your question. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out this video. Here’s a question I got asked only about a month ago by a patient. I wrote it down. I think I’ve actually answered this question on my website, yeastinfection.org. Eric, can waxing cause a yeast infection? Can I get a yeast infection from having waxing?

I don’t think you can and I believe, in fact, the opposite occurs. If you get waxing done every now and then, it can probably keep the area cleaner by reducing the amount of pubic hair in the area.

There are pros and cons of waxing different parts of the body. Some people say that it disrupts the epithelial of the skin layer and it disrupts the pH of the skin. It can make you more prone to damage and infection. Other people say the opposite. They say that it actually is very good for areas like in an armpit and pubic hair, but I don’t think it’s a real problem.

I think the big thing with a yeast infection is to look at the hygiene, look at the cleanliness, and look at the diet and the lifestyle. These things I keep drumming into you people with my YouTube clips. You need to look at the whole picture. I don’t really believe that waxing every now and then really contributes to yeast infection at all.

The big thing with men with groin, for example, and jock itch, they need to trim their public hair and keep the area dry. And some of the females with thrush, especially if it’s around the mons pubis, around the vulvar area. Keep that area relatively dry. After you’ve had a shower or during a shower, trim the pubic hair, use a hair dryer after to dry the area thoroughly, use cotton underclothing. And when you’ve got any irritation in the area, make sure you shower twice per day, once a day is not enough. Twice per day. When you get up in the morning, have a shower, and before you retire at night, have a shower. Very smart idea because yeast hates dryness. It hates clean cotton underclothing. It likes sweaty things like pantyhose and nylon and these sorts of things. That’s how you’re going to encourage it. So, of course, reducing pubic hair allows more air to flow around the area and keeps the area dryer.

So to answer your question, no. I don’t really think that regular waxing contributes to a yeast infection.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Thanks for tuning into this video. Question I’ve got asked from a lady recently here actually in the clinic a few weeks ago. Eric, can Candida become resistant? Is it resistant toward natural things? Is it resistant toward prescription things?

Interesting in 2012, a study was published in an obstetrics and gynecology journal in America where they studied fluconazole, a drug that’s commonly used to treat Candida. And they found about over a 10 to 12 year period that all these new strains of Candida were becoming increasingly resistant to fluconazole. The day will come when Candida is very resistant to a lot of these pharmaceutical drugs. But they haven’t found, however, in various university studies in America is a resistance against natural antifungals like grapefruit seed extract and Caprylic, undecylenic acid, these sort of things and garlic extract, for example. These things are very powerful and Candida is not showing a resistance against these things. These things have been around for thousands of years. Drugs have only been around recently.

These Candida strains are very clever how they can outsmart and continually change. One thing that you’ve got to remember is that Candida and human cells are very similar. We call them eukaryotic, which means they have a membrane around the edge of them and they have a nucleus in the center. Antifungal drugs target eukaryotic cells, which means that they can kill human cells as well as the fungal cells. So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that when you’re going to take these drugs to work on yeast infection, they’re going harm our own natural cells as well. Whereas, other foods or herbs that have been used for a long time to bring microbial order back into balance, these things don’t kill human cells. Garlic does not kill a eukaryotic cell like the way that diflucan does, for example. So it makes more sense for us to use a natural antifungal.

A product I developed up in America called Canxida is an extremely powerful antifungal agent, and I want you to consider that instead of taking something like diflucan or nystatin or any of these other pharmaceutical drugs for a yeast infection. I think you’re going to have a much better effect and also going to prevent the resistance, particularly if you’re going to take this on and off for a while, you’re going to help to bring this balance of the yeast and beneficials in your body back into balance. And not get to a point where you’re continually taking things and developing resistance and then developing even more powerful strains internally to combat.

This sort of treatment with medical people over the years has resulted now in “super bugs,” bacteria that have become so resistant to a lot of these antibiotics that we’re going to get to a point where drugs don’t work on humans anymore.

When it comes to Candida, please consider a natural powerful antifungal and try to keep away from prescribed pharmaceutical drugs because you will certainly get resistance if you keep taking them routinely.

Thanks for your attention.