Yeast

[StillHopeful]

Hi -

 

I want to explore a new avenue that I know nothing about. How do you test for yeast? What type of doctor should you go to? What are the symptoms? What are the treatments? Any and all info is helpful. Thanks in advance!

[Mayzoo]

Hi -

 

I want to explore a new avenue that I know nothing about. How do you test for yeast? What type of doctor should you go to? What are the symptoms? What are the treatments? Any and all info is helpful. Thanks in advance!

 

From what I have read, I believe it tested with a stool sample. While in the PANDAS and PITAND main area, go to the search forum tool and type in "yeast test" and some relevant links should pop up. If you have trouble with doing this let me know and I can walk you through it.

[Mayzoo]

Here are a few articles with symptoms and treatments. There are both pharmaceutical treatments and homeopathic treatments, both of which also include dietary changes:

 

http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/candida.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_%28fungus%29

 

http://www.livestrong.com/article/28057-intestinal-candidiasis-symptoms/

 

http://www.thecandidadiet.com/candidasymptoms.htm

Edited March 7, 2013 by Mayzoo

[LNN]

You can also test for antibodies to candida albicans - which is a blood test.

 

Here's a decent intro to all topics on the gut - scroll down until you hit yeast http://www.medicalinsider.com/bacterial.html#top

 

There's tales that you can also detect yeast by a white coating on the tongue and that you can do a spit test into a glass of water first thing in the morning, before getting out of bed. Spit into the water and wait 20-30 min. If the spit dissolves, no yeast. If it's stringy, you have yeast. However, this is coming from your mouth, so not sure it's really reflective of what's going on in your gut.

 

If you google yeast, you'll find a number of blog sites - some with good info and some not so good.

[StillHopeful]

Looks like I have a lot of reading to do. Thanks!

[mama2alex]

We just tested for yeast and found out it was high. Our doctor ran a urine test through Genova Diagnostics-Metametrix, Inc. The Test was called Organix Comprehensive Profile and tested for a number of things besides yeast, including fatty acid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, B-Complex markers, oxidative damange markers, clostridia, L. acidophilus, and some others. I imagine this lab could do a more limited test, perhaps just for yeast. My son's yeast levels came back "very high" so we are treating with Diflucan as soon as the insurance company approves. In my son I suspect symptoms of yeast are mostly around moodiness and defiance (seeing a lot of that lately), but I imagine it affects different kids differently.

[sf_mom]

We did a comprehensive stool analysis through Genova Diagnostics-Metametrix, Inc. The stool analysis will also look at additional issues like good bacteria levels, parasites, other opportunistic bacteria's in the gut, tell you which antibiotic/herbal protocols are best to treat particular strain of yeast if present, looks at inflammation markers and PH balances, etc. All three of our children had 'very high' yeast as well with no visible signs other than one child having mood switching and AD/HD type symptoms.

 

We see an LLMD and a Pediatrician that specializes in treating Autism biomedically. We found our Pediatrician understand yeast from a Autism perspective and more the emotional symptoms that comes along with high yeast levels. While our LLMD was looking for more physical symptoms and treating two of three children and not aggressively enough given our long term antibiotic usage. We thought we had yeast under control with regular Nystatin dosage. The one child with mood switching and AD/HD was not being treated at all. Those symptoms are greatly improved since Christmas.

 

I would highly recommend a good DAN or Autism specialist as they will hopefully understand additional issues like: methylation, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, heavy metals, chronic viruses, mitochondria damage, maybe mold and of course yeast, etc. Anyway, many ways to test: blood, urine, saliva, stool and all are good.