Question:
Colon candida are fed by *milk
sugar* and starches in the diet which reach the colon undigested, not
free sugars in food which tend to be absorbed before reaching the
yeast. On a food
holiday, the food supply to the Candida and all other colon
microorganisms is reduced and the population decreases. The use of an
elemental nutrient formula, such as Alpha ENF, with high glucose
content, is associated with reduction or disappearance of candida in
the colon.
Answer:
As the article states on that web page that a Candida skin test is used as a
control to check and make sure it is positive. Everybody should be positive
and if you are not then your immune status is poor and other skin testing is
invalid such as TB skin testing. Many HIV patients have TB but a negative
skin test and the only way to see if the skin test is reliably negative is to
check for skin test with Candida. If the Candida skin test is negative then
the negative skin test with TB is suspect and invalid. The entire world has
a positive skin test except HIV and decreased immune system people so to
connect it with disease is a little strange. Candida is normal flora and only when it gets out of control meaning that
their is overgrowth is when you can get problems. An allergy on the other
hand when tested for in an immediate skin test is a measure of an allergic
reaction to the mere presence of yeast and not in large number. You will
never completely eliminate an allergy. You can avoid a bee sting but not
yeast. First of all Trichophyton, Epidermophyton and Microsporin species are skin
dermatophytes true fungi and not yeast. That is either a misprint or
misrepresentation.Factual errors like that should raise a red flag. As far as nasal problems and allergies by far is Aspergillus another true
fungi and not yeast. There are also delayed reactions to food, including delayed IgE mediated
reactions. I think i'm allergic to some yeasts in food, i get a woozy feeling. So
probably, with my Candida allergy on the skin test, i do have some
reaction to the Candida in the GI tract. i don't know how much Candida is
in the GI tract vs. yeasts in food.
I wonder if the Candida allergy could cause leaky gut, which means that
the gut wall lets proteins into the blood that haven't been broken into
amino acids, which encourages reactions to food. I did an elimination
diet to check for food sensitivities, and so far i reacted to milk and
wheat.
You would have to ask the proponents of that stuff for those answers and I
know they have a book out there. You might want to buy it. As for C.
albicans and what it can eat as far as carbohydrates here it goes.It utilizes
Dextrose, Maltose, Sucrose and Tehalose. It does not use Lactose, Raffinose
and Inositol. It can also ferment Galactose. Only monosaccharides glucose
and galactose are absorbed from the intestine. Most of the enzymes needed to
breakdown all the other sugars are located on the brush border of the
intestinal epithelium. Candida can utilize both of these sugars so you would
have to starve to death in order to avoid feeding the Candida.
