Author: Eric Bakker

Thank you for checking out my video today. The question today is, is ringworm Candida? Ringworm isn’t Candida.

Ringworm is a fungal infection of the skin we call Dermatophytosis. Dermatophytes are fungi that live in different parts of the body, but generally on the body. Animals can get ringworm, too. Cats and dogs and domestic animals can get it as well. The circular patches on the skin are not generally caused by worms. They’re caused by fungi.

Dermatophytes, the two particular types you’re looking at here are called microsporum and trichophyton. These are the two particular types of yeast that we’re going to find that are affecting the skin. They feed on the keratin or like the outer layer of shed skin. They like to feed on that, particularly in the warm moist areas of the body. But they can also be found in patches on the chest or even exposed areas like the arm.

Treatments are quite similar. I recommend using pure Australian tea tree oil on the ringworm and making sure that the diet changes are in place to take the sugar out of the diet. And a similar kind of diet that I recommend for intestinal or vaginal, jock itch, these kinds of yeast problems. This condition is not caused by a worm. It’s caused by yeast that are different from Candida.

Don’t forget there are many different types of yeast that live on the body and in the body, many different species. Many different types, so it’s easy to get confused. Treatment in the old days for ringworm was quite severe. If you had really bad ringworm of the scalp, they’d even x-ray it to try and get rid of it.

And prior to the 1900s with these circular patches on the skin, they’d actually pour mercury on there to try to cure it, which is ridiculous. Just remember tea tree oil is a fantastic treatment to apply externally to the skin for ringworm. If you do it twice per day, it’s going to really help significantly.

I hope that answers your question about ringworm and Candida. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my YouTube video today. I have a question here from a lady in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is Jillian from Little Rock. Jillian asks, is ringworm thrush? That’s a good question, Jillian. Let me answer that question for you today.

Both of them are yeast, but there are quite a lot of differences between them both. Ringworm is a yeast problem we call a dermatophyte, which really lives generally on the skin surface. There are different types of dermatophytes, different species affecting different parts of the body. Common presentations of ringworm are areas affecting the feet or the scalp or the back, around the nail beds. You can have different areas of the body being affected.

People sometimes think ringworm involves worms or parasites, but it doesn’t. It gets its name from a round appearance that it has, sometimes with a red margin or a red center and there can be satellite lesions, small lesions around it as well. It can burn, be intensely itchy, and a lot of people think they’ve got a really bad problem there. Generally, these things are cleared up quite quickly. Let’s look at some different types of presentations of things that are similar to ringworm.

On the scalp, it’s tinea capitis we call it. Ringworm can occur on the scalp. Even on the feet, tinea pedis. Jock itch, tinea cruris. But thrush, however, is Candida albicans. It’s a different type of a yeast which prefers to really colonize moist warm dark areas, generally under things like the breast area, around the penis, the head of the penis, under the foreskin, in the vaginal area, in the mouth, in the intestinal tract. Whereas, the ringworm will prefer the surface of the body.

Treatment for these types of conditions is quite similar. I tend to be a bit more aggressive with the ringworm with topical treatment. There are various kinds of essential oils I recommend that you use. You can read more about ringworm on yeastinfection.org. I think I put a good post about ringworm on that website.

Thrush needs internal treatment, of course, and external treatment. Chapter 5 of Candida Crusher explains in detail how to eradicate thrush. And in my book, Candida Crusher as well, you can find the correct treatment of ringworm. It’s not difficult to eradicate.

Incidentally, I prefer that people don’t use antifungal drugs for ringworm, but tend to use more natural methods. These natural methods don’t destroy the environment of the body allowing other pathogens to grow. When you start taking in drugs like Itraconazole or Terbinafine like Lamisil, you’re going to create a big imbalance in the body. You’re going to get drug side effects. You’re going to get resistance to these drugs and you’re not going to get a successful cure as you would and if you used a natural treatment, which usually means diet and lifestyle and antifungal kinds of products to take in.

I hope that answers your question, Jillian, about is ringworm thrush? It’s not really thrush. It’s a different kind of an organism. Thanks for tuning in.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher; another question I get to hear from time to time.

Is there anything I can do to avoid getting a yeast infection ever again?

There’s a lot you can do. A very intelligent approach would be to think, how did I get myself in this mess in the first place? What things did I do to cause this problem?

I my book, Candida Crusher, I talk about two main causes. I talk about the exciting cause or what started your yeast infection, and I talk about the maintaining cause or causes, the things that you’re doing right now to keep your yeast infection going.

Now they could be things like taking recurring antibiotics, staying up late at night, not chewing food properly, stressing out too much, worrying about money, worrying about your health, worrying about everything, nutritional deficiencies; there could be 101 maintaining causes. Exciting causes, generally, there will be a few of them. There could be one main one. It may have all started when you took antibiotics for sore throat or for acne or a skin infection. It may have started when you took the oral contraceptive pill. There are a lot of reasons why you could have started getting a yeast infection.

So what you can do to avoid getting a yeast infection ever again is to think about the causes and address them and put them to rest. You need to make change if you want change. So if you’ve got this problem called a yeast infection and you want to get on top of it, you’ll need to make changes. I mean, you will know that.

One of my favorite sayings is the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If you think that you’re going to prevent getting a recurring yeast infection by doing the same thing over and over again, it is a bit of an insane way of thinking. You need to make change and you need to maintain the change. And some people slowly slide back into their old habits, and then the yeast infection may slowly come back again.

There’s plenty you can do to avoid getting the yeast infection back again. And if you’ve held it at bay for some time, you’re probably already doing what it takes to keep it away permanently.

In my book, Candida Crusher, I talk a lot more about how to keep this problem away permanently. And that’s why I’ve called my book, the permanent yeast solution. Get a copy and have a look. The fifth section in Chapter 7 talks quite a lot about lifestyle and lifestyle things that you can do right now to keep this yeast infection away permanently.

So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.