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These include malt, cow’s milk, eggs, com, rye, oats, wheat, cocoa, oranges, tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts and chicken.

Sometimes a strong allergy to a given food can make you mildly allergic to other members of its food family. Be on the look out for this. For instance, if you are allergic to onions and don’t feel any better for having avoided them, experiment by going off chives, spring onions, garlic and leeks as well. Regularly consult the food family table in the back of the book. This is done as a last resort and only after all the commonly allergic foods and amines and salicylates have been tested for. Don’t even consider doing it if you’ve broken the program.

If you show up allergic, go on your personal Anti-Allergy Program (which is the Anti-Candida Program minus the foods you are specifically allergic to) for a minimum of ninety days from the time of determining your allergic food(s). Those of you who have been on cortisone and antihistamines may find that once off cortisone, you still need antihistamines to keep your symptoms at bay. If this is the case you must still go off the antihistamines for seven days before the tests. (You must be completely off cortisone.) This could be uncomfortable as the symptoms may well flare up. I wish there was an easier way but unfortunately there is not. After the tests you can go straight back on to the antihistamines (but not cortisone tablets) while the program is starting to take effect and then wean yourself off them (under a doctor’s supervision) as your symptoms abate. If suffering from asthma use a Ventolin inhaler during these seven days and any other non-cortisone/ non-antihistamine drug your doctor recommends. If suffering from eczema or other skin rashes for which your doctor has recommended cortisone creams, keep using them. Cortisone creams won’t interfere with the tests (cortisone puffers will). In fact cortisone creams help by keeping skin conditions at bay while the program is taking effect. Looking at a skin condition can be so distressing as to cause it to flare up and resist the healing effects of the program.

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Recurrent vaginal thrush is a significant problem for some women and is harder to treat than gut-mediated thrush (Candida infection). Some authorities argue that vaginal thrush can’t be cured. Where it’s probably true that all Candida plants could never be completely killed, it’s equally true that the colony can be reduced to such a minuscule level that no symptoms ever manifest. To achieve this I’ve found the following steps must be taken.

1. Sex with a condom is a must. Many men have Candida yeast infections in their penis and Candida spores are carried out with the sperm. Some have blood Candida infections which can give rise to Candida in the sperm itself.

2. Sex with a partner with jock itch must not be engaged in. Jock itch results from Candida plants growing in the pubic, scrotal and groin areas. Make sure he shaves the whole pubic area (base of the penis, groin and scrotum). Make sure he uses a safety razor and not a barber’s razor. He must then apply the Nystatin cream (same as the ladies use) to the whole area every day for fourteen days—no sex during this time.

3. While your partner is doing this you must be doing the same.

Shave the pubic and vaginal area and apply Nystatin cream to it and inside the vagina for fourteen days. This is so you don’t give him back the jock itch that he will give back to you as vaginal thrush—no sex during this time. Do this even if you have no symptoms of thrush. During this time make sure you are wearing only 100 per cent cotton knickers which must be zapped in the microwave after laundering (while still slightly damp) for five minutes. This will effectively kill the Candida spores that survived the wash.

If you have suffered repeated severe bouts of vaginal thrush in the past and find the emotional stress of it overbearing, you won’t want to be going through this treatment procedure too often. I suggest then you bring the big guns to bear on your vaginal thrush. Ask your doctor to put you on a course of Nizoral. Nizoral is very effective at killing blood-borne Candida and those that are deep seated in the walls of the vagina. Make sure you have a liver function test first. If you suspect your partner may have blood-borne Candida and if oral sex is a preference of yours he must definitely go on Nizoral too. The chances of you contracting gut-borne Candida infection from oral sex are too great otherwise. Gut-borne Candida infections give rise to vaginal thrush again in time. While faking Nizoral you must be on the full Anti-Candida Program and Nystatin under the supervision of your doctor or other health professional.

Vaginal thrush must be contained if the systemic’ allergies and Candida infections are to be overcome. You won’t gel 100 per cent better if acetaldehyde is entering your blood system from Candida albicans plants that are deep sealed in the walls of your vagina.

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Even after cutting down on commitments and activities, adhering to the program and taking Nystatin, some people still fail to get optimum results. The reason for this can be summed up in three words: the wrong attitude.

There is no sense cutting back on workload and commitments if you are going to feel guilty, frustrated and annoyed about it. If your attitude is: ‘This dammed Candida program is restricting me and slowing me down,’ then you are going to remain as stressed as you were when you were overdoing it. You’re not going to receive the results you are looking for if you cannot adopt an attitude that is in line with your more relaxed workload. Because we all have the ability to change our attitudes there is no excuse for feeling annoyed and frustrated when we cut back our work and commitment loads.

Habitual whingers are as unsuccessful as the over-workers when it comes to getting optimum results on the anti-candida regimen. Adopting the attitude of ‘Why me?’, ‘It’s unfair!’, ‘I can’t stand it!’, ‘Life shouldn’t treat me this way!’, ‘It’s awful!’ is a guaranteed recipe for disappointment. That sort of self talk puts cortisone in the blood as quickly as over-work, over-exercising and over-commitment.

If your first reaction to the thought of going on the program is a negative one read the program again. After reading and reflecting on it a few times you’ll find there are more foods to eat than you at first realised. Some people take longer to adjust to change than others. You could be one of them. Be patient. Give yourself time to become familiar with the program and the thought of going on it. In your own time you’ll be ready. It takes as long as it takes.

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As individual Candida plants grow in size and number their roots put down deeper into the bowel wall. In time, the roots can be so deep, numerous and large in circumference that they can cause splits in the bowel wall. This splitting effect is analogous to the splitting of the pavements by trees whose roots are growing too big, a phenomenon often witnessed by those of us who live in cities that have trees growing out of the footpaths.

The crevices formed by this splitting effect allow the spores that bud off from the top of the Candida plant to fall through into the bloodstream. Carried along in the bloodstream the spores settle out in various body tissues (for example, joints, skin, brain, mucous membranes of the nose and throat) to grow to maturity and set up new colonies. These colonies, known as internal colonies, live on glucose that is carried in the blood each day and if they grow large enough can cause the blood glucose levels to drop seriously, giving rise to hypoglycaemia.

In my experience, few Candida sufferers have internal colonies. Those who do can take a number of internally absorbed preparations such as garlic and Nizoral (prescribed by a physician). Blood-borne Candida infections are diagnosed by blood tests or by the lack of response to treatment for a gut-borne Candida yeast infection.

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Not everyone with a Candida yeast infection has allergies, though most do. Allergic sensitivities to other members of the yeast, mould and fungi family frequently develop in those with a Candida yeast infection. For this reason, a reaction to alcohol can be a result of both Candida and an allergy to the yeast used to ferment the alcoholic beverage if wines, beers and ciders are being consumed.

If the reaction is a response to the unfermented alcohol (whisky, vodka or gin), then Candida alone is often the culprit (though sometimes the food the alcohol is made from is involved). Other fermented foods such as breads, cheeses, yoghurts, vinegars and mould foods such as mushrooms and leftovers that have mould growing on them must also be avoided.

Acetaldehyde invariably creates sensitivities to other chemicals. Candida sufferers characteristically become sensitive to perfumes, anti-perspirants, household cleansers, aerosol sprays and gas from cookers and heaters. Sometimes gas from home cookers and heaters is such a problem to these people that complete containment of their symptoms is impossible until gas appliances are removed and electrical ones installed.

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