GUT-BORNE CANDIDA INFECTIONS AND ALLERGY: ANGELA’S STORY

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Angela is typical examples of how a Candida albicans infection can sensitise the body to chemicals and produce spin-off allergic reactions to less noxious substances.

Angela (15) was brought to me by a distraught mother who was having trouble coping with her antisocial behaviour. As a child Angela was moderately, though not seriously, hyperactive. She was fairly clumsy and lacked the co-ordination needed to be good at ball-handling sports. Her concentration span was less than most of her peers and she had a low tolerance to frustration. She was below average in her schoolwork.

At puberty she became cranky, irritable, argumentative and aggressive. The bouts of aggression would alternate with bouts of depression which would see her become sullen and withdrawn to the point of spending hours at a time locked in her bedroom. She was a lover of junk food which she justified by her continuous craving for sweets. A craving for sweets is as much a symptom of Candida infection as it is a symptom of allergy addiction. The Candida plants live on sugar and white flour and call out for them when hungry.

The white spots on her fingernails indicated a definite zinc deficiency and she was immediately put on the Metabolism-Balancing Program for six weeks. She improved significantly on all levels but was by no means completely cured. Allergy tests revealed her to be allergic to malt, brewer’s yeast, eggs, milk, MSG, dust mites, mould and a number of grasses. The appropriate Anti-Allergy Program (which was the Metabolism-Balancing Program minus the things she was allergic to) was prescribed and within six weeks there was a vast improvement.

Her schoolwork had improved so much she was pulling away from the middle pack and moving into the top ten bracket. Her concentration, memory, retention of details and sociability at school had improved out of sight. She had more energy than ever before and was experiencing such good physical co-ordination that her handwriting had become neat and legible without any concerted effort on her part. Her teachers and headmaster were thrilled.

Her parents were not so thrilled. They couldn’t understand why, when she was sticking so rigidly to her program, she could be sociable every morning at home and all day at school yet so antisocial at home each evening. The problem seemed to hinge around Angela’s allotted evening chore of washing the dishes. (Her younger brother dried them.) Dishwashing had always been the major hassle of the evening for the family as Angela would always throw a tantrum over it. At first, I tended to agree with Angela’s mother, that she was just an intractable teenager, but after a long talk with Angela one day, I could see that she really did want to improve herself and was quite genuine when she said she didn’t know why dishwashing made her so upset.

Further delving into her history revealed that Angela’s mother had a mild case of thrush during her pregnancy with Angela. Angela had been born with a mild case of oral thrush. Her infancy had been marred by colic and a nappy rash which was focused mainly around her anus. The latter two were overt symptoms of a Candida yeast infection situated in her gut. Clearly she still had the infection and the fact that her bloated tummy hadn’t completely reduced following the Anti-Allergy Program was confirmation of this.

The sudden mood swings that assailed Angela when she reached puberty were at last explained. The sudden release of the hormone progesterone from her ovaries at puberty had encouraged the growth of the small yeast colony in her gut into a large yeast colony which was filling her system with the chemical acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde, being a toxic chemical, had sensitised her to dishwashing chemicals which began to vaporise when put into hot water. Not only that, the heat from the sink caused the vaporisation of the dishwashing liquid in its container, as it was stored directly below the sink. The vaporised chemical released from the dishwashing liquid was formaldehyde, a close cousin, of acetaldehyde.

Was it any wonder that by the time dishwashing was over Angela was cranky, aggressive and often crying? She would storm out of the kitchen and into her bedroom slamming the door so hard the house would reverberate. She would spend the rest of the evening sulking. Often in the dark.

Substituting soap for dishwashing liquids solved the problem. No more tantrums and no more withdrawing socially after dinner. What was most interesting though was that after three months on the Anli-Candida/Anfi-Allergy Program, plus Nystatin powder, Lactobacillus acidophilus capsules and Formula Six multi-vitamin and mineral supplement, Angela was able to wash up with dishwashing liquid again without experiencing her usual massive mood swings and withdrawal from the family.

By removing the acetaldehyde from her blood the liver enzymes repaired themselves to the point where they could cope with limited exposure to formaldehyde. Evenings were no longer the bane of Angela’s day and she made good use of the time to do some extra study which improved her position in class even more.

It is debatable whether Angela could have coped with exposure to large sustained quantities of formaldehyde but 1 was not prepared to risk the return of her symptoms in an effort to find out.

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