Lovely Candida albicans. Every 10th person is affected by an enormous candida population. It means that for every 1000 patients with secondary Lyme symptoms, one of them really got Lyme, others - Candida. These yeasts always do live in the colon, it's impossible to take rid of them - they are common, every day at least few times we meet offensive form of Candida. Usually they make no harm, moreover - they are pretty useful, helping to digest the sugar. But when they grow strong, it might be a real problem. Major cause are wrongly ordered antibiotics, sugar, fast-food or lack of natural immune reactions. In such case, yeats start to grow wildly, damaging the colon and colonizing other mucous membranes. "Eek"

Sometimes doctors laugh, when patient ask about the candida infection. How may it be? The disease that can be cured by some garlic and change of life habits? After successful treatment the patient will come no more, never again asking for medicines? Apage, Apage! The candida does not exist, and here please - a recipe for dandruff shampoo, for flatulence, heartburn medicine please, painkiller... twice, hand creme, another to use on face, pills against diarrhea, for colon pain - here is recipe, please, for dermatology - second door to left, to care about toes, they do not look well, and please do not read the internet, it's full of idiocy!! Euro 70 please and come after 2 weeks for new recipes and to control.

The yeast overgrowth will give exactly same symptoms, as every other infection. Aching bones and muscles, feeling like being drunk, and generally toxication symptoms. It's pretty hard to detect the candida overgrowth because both antigens and fungi themself are common in a population. One might suspect, especially if following symptoms arise: a dandruff, bad breath, unpleasant body odour, white tongue. There's easy test to check if one got candida - use an antifungi medicine. After such treatment a candida victim should experience increasing of symptoms, then decreasing few days afer. It looks similar to a herx and can make diagnosis of Lyme difficult - especially if Candida victim uses the anti-fungi medicine together with antibiotics. It would be impossible to separate the Lyme herx from Candida one.

Another syndrom is lack of vitamins B, It might be the conjunctivitis, stinging of tongue or generally mouth, skin changes at forehead, dryness of cuticle. Reason is very simple - dead yeasts are excellent source of vitamins B, but alive ones eat them before we have a chance to absorb. One more thing - the succesful candida therapy will cure the dandruff. Permanently.

If you have candida, very often digestion problems may occur - especially a diarrhea, very symptomatic morning hunger, gases. Symptoms should arise after eating the sugar.

The treatment is both easy and hard. Easy, because it does not require even single drug. Hard, because it can last for months. Goal is to regain a natural balance, so our immunologic system can kill yeats without help - then we can absorb vitamins B group without problem.

First stage is a change of diet habits. No more sugar, no more cola, no more mineral water with carbon dioxide, no more of yeasts based food, white flour products (white bread for example), elimination of products with a high glycemic index. And so on for few months. Medicines - mostly herbs, especially a garlic, vilcacora, citrosept (it's expensive but it's easy to manufacture in home). Then we can expect the pseudo-herx, effect of yeasts dying en-masse. It will pass in few days, so don't worry. It's very important to take vitamins from group B. And, of course, lactobactillus.

Once we managed to kill the candida, it would be nice to clean guts from dead ones. A lot of dietary fiber should do the work. To get rid of toxins, take a warm bath, think about some activity - our body eliminate toxins by sweating. And drink a lot of water, it will simply flush toxins down.

Ready? Time to regenerate our colon. Be sure it's badly damaged. What about beet? This plant works pretty good. But excellent is a hand-made medicine. Prepare a blender. Take the garlic, whole bulb, handful of sauerkraut, whole lemon (erm... without skin), some tablespoons of olive oil. Will it blend? Yes, it will :) Now add some demineralized water. Keep this thing in a fridge, it stinks to heaven. Before eating drink some of this beauty, 2-3 teaspoons, or some more.

There is a lot of bogus websites that offer you a miraculous cure for candida infection. They also have a lot of ideas how candida affect your body, most of them are simply false. Candida overgrowth is always a SYMPTOM - keep this in mind, only symptom. Usually it's caused by either a malfunction of skin and mucous membranes or disfunction of the immune system, so as soon as you cure candida, you should check what was the cause of the overgrowth. It might be a thyroid problem, lack of zinc, magnesium, problems with resistance, lack of vitamin D or many, many others... generally, the healthy immune system should kill candida without problem.