Re: antifungals/ Chris

[Guest guest]

I've heard a test for Candida of the mouth/throat, etc., is to

spit into a glass

of water first thing when you get up and if it grows tenticles down

into the

water, it is Candida and if it just sits there, you don't. Of course

you can

have systemic Candida and I don't think that is test for that.

It just seems to me it's hard to get treated for fungal infections.

Then I

thought it was probably because antifungals are so hard on your body,

doctors

want to avoid them, BUT then I realized that doctors frequently wrote

prescriptions for antifungals for toenail fungus, etc, so I guess

being

concerned for your health isn't the reason that they don't. and back

to fact

that they probably just don't ever consider systemic fungus to be a

problem

unless patient is that textbook model of fungal infections, an AIDS

patient or

cancer patient. It must have been the answer to a test in medical

school or

something as all doctors say that. However, more detailed reading

says that

systemic fungal infections can affect anyone with a compromised

immune system

and LOTS of medicines that have a side affect of suppressing the

immune system

but doctors aren't paying any attention to that.

Anyway, I hope you feel better soon and good luck w your surgery.

Let us know

how it goes.

wrote:

I took it for two weeks but I think now I have probobly gotten a

heavy case of

candida. I took a piece of this stuff that comes out of my throat and