Yeast free diet

djPSB

I am starting a yeast free diet.

I have most of my new diet figured out.

The only issue I am struggling with is breakfast.

Would anybody have any advice on a suitable yeast free breakfast cereal?

Stench Blossoms

Porridge.

...eggs would be better though.

djPSB

Would this be out yeah?



Ingredients: British Wholegrain Cereals (81%) (Wheat Flakes, Barley Flakes, Oat Flakes), Dried Fruit & Nuts (19%) (Raisins, Sultanas, Chopped Dates, Whole Roasted Hazelnuts, Sliced Almonds, Sliced Brazil Nuts).

Wholegrain cereal with dried fruit and nuts.

Stench Blossoms

There's no yeast in that.

Are you sure it's yeast free you are going or wheat free?

djPSB

Yeast free.

No sugar either.

Im thinking the fruit in that might rule it out.

Stench Blossoms

I did yeast free for awhile to try combate candida.

No fruit, yogurt, milk, or alcohol were the main things if i remember correctly.

djPSB

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

I did yeast free for awhile to try combate candida.

No fruit, yogurt, milk, or alcohol were the main things if i remember correctly.

Yeah Im on pretty much the same.

No bread, tea, sugar or fairy products either.

Im not finding it too bad. Going to start the porridge for breakfast. Only times I struggle is thinking of snacks between meals when I would usually have had fruit or chocolate etc.

username123

I did it a few times in the past to beat candida - worked too but it takes weeks - I lost a lot of weight doing it at different times!

Then I discovered you can take a flucanozole tablet (otc Canesten Oral in NI or the UK) and it kills intestinal candida so everytime I was up north I stocked up and took one once every 4 months or so (the candida would slowly come back). Started buying it on Amazon the past few years.

Anyway, turned out it was my contraceptive pill was causing it. It destroys some flora in your gut and you can get candida build up. Came off that particular pill last September, havent had the candida since - thats after 10 years of it.

Anyway, theres the yeast free diet or theres a tablet - I preferred the tablet - relief within 24 hours.

Stench Blossoms

username - do you mind me asking what pill you were on?

username123

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

username - do you mind me asking what pill you were on?

It was Mercilon. But I think the general point holds with any combined pill.

I came off it because I began to get ocular migraines but they were rare enough, the immediate thing I noticed was - no more candida stomach! It had gotten that I so often had low level acid or mild indigestion - I was just used to it and chugged Gaviscon and Rennies quite frequently. It would be good for a month or so after taking a flucanozole then it would creep back up.

Switched to Cerazette and no more candida - or migraines!

dee_mc

remember to avoid mushrooms, alcohol and blue cheese too
good list here of foods you CAN eat when avoiding candida, sometimes it's easier to focus on what you can have than what you can't!
http://www.thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm

--Kaiser--

I'd like to point out that if you think you have a systemic candida infection you should go to a doctor and get it confirmed. I don't think they're as common as the internet would have you believe (plus a lot of those candida sites are full of pseudo-science and spurious nonsense)

username123

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I'd like to point out that if you think you have a systemic candida infection you should go to a doctor and get it confirmed. I don't think there as common as the internet would have you believe (plus a lot of those candida sites are full of pseudo-science and spurious nonsense)

Yeah my doctor did confirm it. There was no such thing as the internet when it started happening to me

One issue in this country is that the medicine is not otc, so you have to pay a GP 50 quid just to get a prescription that you then have to pay a chemist 10 quid or so to fill that prescription. In NI you can simply walk into Boots and for 3 quid, problem solved.

Another issue is that candida is simply not taken seriously by western medicine. I spend over 2k with my GP and specialists and tests and at no point was it suggested it was a candida infection. It was only after I was prescribed diflucan for external thrush that it also cleared the issue and the GP finally admitted it was intestinal candida and that the pill could sometimes cause this. Mind you, once cleared she said that it would be fine to stay on the pill and offered me no other options so for years I continued to suffer on and just dealt with it myself by stocking up on the meds from the UK or NI.

djPSB

Anyone know if organic yogurt is allowed as part of the candida diet?

Stench Blossoms

I don't think it is. Most yogurts have added sugar in them.

dee_mc

Yes, unsweetened natural (live) yogurt, Yeo Valley and Glenisk would be the most popular ones and in my opinion the tastiest (as unflavoured yogurts go!)
Can aid digestion of meals if you take a few spoonfuls of this before a meal