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Candida Question #59 How Doctor Diagnose For A Yeast Infection?

Well, there are many ways that your doctor could potentially test. But if you’re talking about a vaginal yeast infection, your doctor will probably do a smear test and take some cell samples there of the cervix or the vaginal wall and check to see if they can culture yeast off this or bacteria.

The other way that some doctors do it is by way of blood testing by checking for antibody levels. But generally medical practitioners will test by doing swabs. Not many medical practitioners really believe in systemic Candidiasis or blood-borne Candida infections, even though they do exist and there’s certainly plenty written in the medical literature about this; not many believe it.

But antibody testing is quite valid, although some argue that you can have antibodies all your life to Candida and not have symptoms; what we call asymptomatic. Others believe that antibody levels are significant regardless whether you have symptoms or not and still signify you need treatment for Candida.

I believe the best way to test for a yeast infection is a stool test. And I’m going to do a lot of FAQs on stool testing and explain stool testing in-depth to you, the various components of the stool test, and why this is a superior way to test for yeast infection.

So how does a doctor test for yeast infection? Usually a swab or a vaginal test is the main way, if they test at all. But, yeah, that would be the way they would test.

Candida Question #49 Can Yeast Infection Turn Into Urinary Tract Infection?

Well, yeast infections can predispose you to many different types of infections. They, in turn, are there because of poor or compromised immunity and, in turn, can further compromise your lowered immunity and predispose you to a UTI or urinary tract infection.

Urinary tract infections are common for certain types of people. Elderly women, I find, have more, but many women suffer from recurring UTIs as well, particularly younger women who often have these. UTIS can come about through increased sexual activity, but also infrequent emptying or bladder issues. Lowered immunity or compromised immunity is a key reason why people would have a UTI. So drinking plenty of water is a clever idea and boosting immunity up.

Coming back to that question again, can a UTI be there because of a yeast infection? It can be because of the predisposing factor, but yeast infections don’t generally cause UTIs as such, but they can develop out of yeast infections.

So basically the smart thing to do if you have got a UTI is to improve your immune health and your urinary health and I’ll be covering more details in further FAQs on UTIs to give you some very good ideas on how you can overcome a urinary tract infection. These are things that you can get on top of.

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.