Guest guest Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 That hydrogen peroxide solution sounded pretty hopeful. Mara > ok itchy again lol! i took an extra lyosan and yogurt, waiting on s > boulardi and cut back triggers - i'm amazed i'm not worse with 3 > bananas a day for months now!! yikes > eileen > > > > > >>> >>> Eileen >>> >>> You are eating a lot of the yeast " trigger " foods in one day, > which >> might explain the vaginal itchiness, especially if your digestion >> isn't coping too well with one or more of them. You may not need > to >> stop eating these foods completely, but it might help to cut back a >> bit. >>> >>> For example, bananas are very sweet; so are carrots and pears. >> Pecan butter can be difficult to digest, which means it can be >> fermenting and feeding yeast. Cheese is also one of the trigger >> foods. >>> >>> You can read about all the trigger foods and carb ratings of the >> legals in the group files. I posted some files on yeast there; >> information I pulled from books on the subject. >>> >>> As an example, when I was dealing with my yeast overgrowth, which >> included a vaginal infection, I didn't eat bananas, pears, carrots, >> cheddar or pecan butter at all. I ate lots of low-carb veggies, > only >> had applesauce or diluted fruit juice every other day, etc. We're >> all different, so you may not need to go that drastic. But I > found, >> through trial and error, that in order to kill off the high levels > of >> yeast I had to eliminate most of the trigger foods. And then stay > at >> that level for a long time since my body wouldn't tolerate >> antifungals. >>> >>> For now, you could just cut back on the most sweet things, like >> bananas and pears. Have a banana pancake every other day, for >> example. Switch to baked apples and only have them on a day when > you >> don't have a banana. Maybe not eat carrots more than twice a week. >>> >>> You might not need to do this for long; just enough to feel your >> itchiness disappear. You're lucky that you noticed the itchiness >> first. In my case that was the last symptom to appear; I'd already >> had oral thrush and skin rashes and fluid in my ears and some other >> symptoms, so it took me a long time to get the overgrowth killed > off. >>> >>> Kim M. >>> >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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