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Yeast syndrome can be indicated by a variety of symptoms that literally affect the patient from head to toe. Patients may experience:
Despite common efforts to avoid bacteria and other microbes, our bodies are actually naturally teeming with microorganisms. As soon as we are born, we begin to accumulate these harmless microorganisms, which play a protective role in the body. By occupying parts of our bodies that microorganisms naturally like to grow in, such as the mouth, the intestines, and the skin, these harmless microorganisms prevent the pathogens from moving in and taking over. Some microorganisms play additional roles in the body, such as the bacteria that inhabit the various parts of our gastrointestinal tracts. These bacteria can help us digest food, converting it to nutrients the body can use and synthesizing vitamins, such as vitamin K and folic acid. All these helpful bacteria that live in and on us are often referred to as our normal flora.
If something happens to remove our normal flora, this uninhabited microbial environment, or niche, may be invaded by a pathogenic microorganism. For example, antibiotics often kill our normal flora in addition to the pathogens they are designed to attack. It is very common for people to then get yeast infections, as the yeast microorganism, Candida albicans, may infect and proliferate in that open niche faster than their own normal flora can recolonize. These are called opportunistic infections and are why people on antibiotics are often encouraged to eat yogurt. Natural yogurt contains live cultures of various species of Lactobacillus, a friendly species of bacteria that normally lives in the intestinal tract and the vagina. Women very frequently suffer from vaginal yeast infections following antibiotic treatments if they do not help their bacteria recolonize through such "probiotic" treatments. If a yeast infection does occur, it can be treated with anti-fungal drugs, which will kill the yeast but leave the bacteria intact.
Normally, any invading microorganisms stay confined to their niche, but if a person is in a weakened immune state or if there are other imbalances in the normal flora, the invader may progress to other places in the body. If yeast infection spreads such that the microorganisms colonize the intestinal tract, for example, this can lead the numerous symptoms, which make up the systemic disease known as yeast syndrome.
Some of the same conditions that can put a person at risk for yeast infection can also predispose them to developing yeast syndrome. Repeated courses of antibiotics, for example, may hinder the body’s normal flora as it recolonizes the intestines. More than twenty weeks of antibiotics during the lifetime or four courses of antibiotic treatments within one year can significantly increase the chances of yeast syndrome. Excessive sugars and refined carbohydrates also seem to contribute to the incidence of yeast syndrome. This disorder is also commonly associated with the use of hormone-based medications, including fertility drugs and oral contraceptives. Prednisone and other steroid treatments may also put a person at risk. Naturally, any immune compromised person is at risk for opportunistic infection of microorganisms, including yeast.
While normal yeast infections are treated commonly through the use of anti-fungal medications, yeast syndrome as a collective disorder is not currently recognized by the medical community. Considered a fad illness, most medical doctors will neither investigate nor design a treatment plan specific to yeast syndrome, as they do not consider it to be a valid diagnosis.
Patients Medical offers a very carefully designed yeast syndrome treatment plan that is specific to your symptoms and the levels of yeast that you are harboring within your body. Treatment for Yeast Syndrome at Patients Medical includes:
Our job at Patients Medical is to listen, to connect the dots between a patient's medical history, symptoms, and their underlying causes. Patients Medical is a superb place for women and men to secure integrative and holistic health care from providers who give personalized care, partner with the patient to focus on the root cause of their illness, support their recovery, and help them maintain good health.
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