Candida is a common disease in our western society, and many people might not even be aware that they are carrying an intestinal yeast infection. It's said that 75% of the overweight people are also suffering from candida, that has been fed for years by a poor diet with lots of sugar and processed wheat products (pastries, cup cakes , snacks; all of that high cholesterol junk food). So what are the symptoms and how can you be sure that it's candida? Well, to begin with, candida infection can be established by a simple blood test by a physician. There are several symptoms that come with candida, and if you are having some of them, often in combination with the most commons symptoms (irritable bowel; you get bloated and tired when you are eating sugar, wheat, potato, bread and drinking alcohol. Heavy sugar cravings are also common), you can be quite sure it's candida you are having.

So what are all the different symptoms, then? To speak from my own experience first, except for all the symptoms above with eating, I used to have rashes on my hands that got very bad from time to time. I had a lot of recurring vaginal yeast infections. My skin itched a lot, especially in the face. I was very dizzy in periods, with fatigue and extreme tiredness. I did a lot of visits to the doctors because of this, but they could never find anything. I had white small lumps coming out from my throat. That is also common if you have angina pectoris, but they could never find that either, on the tests they did at my physicians. I probably had fungus in my ears as well, because from periods I had a lot of discomfort and ear pain, and again, no one could find anything wrong with my ears. Sounds like I was a real full time hypochondriac, right? Well, I thought I was too, believe me. I thought I would go crazy sometimes when they couldn't find anything wrong with me, AGAIN!

By chance I stumbled on some information about candida and the symptoms you could have, and I put one and one together and realized that this could be what I suffered from. I had also been overweight for some years and I just couldn't seem to loose those pounds I so badly needed to get rid of . It all fitted so well on what my life looked like.

I started a diet according to some ground rules for candida treatment. I felt really bad in the beginning, it was like the symptoms worsened initially, it's very common and nothing to be worried about. It's called "die off" symptoms, and occurs when the fungus in you intestines starts to get eliminated. I followed the diet for about two months, and my life truly changed. It was very hard to follow the diet from time to time, because of all the limitations in what I could eat. But oh, did my life change after those two months. The fatigue was gone, the skin rashes was gone, the constant yeast infections. I now try to eat modest amounts of the things that feed fungus, and from time to time I take some herbs and supplement to keep the candida from growing back. Yes the diet was hard, but so well worth it in the end. After years of suffering I got rid of it after a couple of months.

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