Does anyone know of a good, non-antibiotic treatment of Candida?
Question by What?: Does anyone know of a good, non-antibiotic treatment of Candida?
I’m pretty sensitive to them and want to give something else a try. I’ve tried Threelac, but, the side effects were horrid (even in reduced dosage) and I want to know if there’s something else that could help. Thanks.
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Answer by Weise Ente
Do you have an actual Candida infection, ie thrush or a vaginal infection?
C. ablicans is a favorite of cranks. They love to claim people have “candida overgrowth,” a completely fictitious condition they invented to sell supplements and treatments. Real systemic candiasis is a life threatening condition that needs anti-fungals. However, this only happens in individuals that are extremely immune compromised.
For the real C. albicans infections, anti-fungals are just about the only thing that actual works.
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Garlic is an antibiotic technically, but it’s harmless and natural. It won’t cause the types of problems that synthetic antibiotics cause. It will help with candida.
Take some garlic pills and eat yogurt or take a probiotic supplement. I do this daily now and I use to suffer yeast infections all the time.
Antibiotics don’t work for candida because it is a fungal infection, but if you meant antifungals sorry 🙂
First of all, you probably don’t want to get rid of all candida since this is part of your normal flora. That being said, you can eat yogurt with live cultures (ex:Activia) to replenish your other normal flora which will reduce the Candida overgrowth. Furthermore, you can reduce your intake of simple carbs and focus on more fibrous foods.
If you are talking about a full body candida infection, you’ve been duped by a quack. Assuming you are talking about a local infection, e.g.. vaginal infection; if you don’t want to take an oral medicine, you could try a pessary which you insert into the vagina with an applicator. It contains an anti-yeast medicine such as clotrimazole. It’s generally well tolerated with few side effects and usually resolves the problem.
Barley grass, garlic and yogurt won’t help. The evidence base for live yogurt is very weak.
Edit: Nosey’s answer is complete and utter BS from start to finish.
Take a good quality probiotic supplement (contains at least 15 billion live cells per serving). Avoid eating sugars and starches until the problem clears up. Test your saliva/uring pH levels — candida loves an acid environment, so you want to eat more alkaline forming foods — drink lots of water with fresh lemon juice and apple cider vinegar (turns alkaline in the stomach).
If you can’t find barley grass, many health food stores selll wheat grass (as well as online suppliers).
Antibiotic treatments usually cause candida bacteria to form biofilms and tends to make the problem much more difficult to get rid of long term.
You can find a lot of very useful info. at Mercola.com and Natural News.