Treat Yeast Infections With Diet

Cure a Yeast Infection with Diet

A person's approach to food is important, as it can either inhibit or accelerate yeast infection-related problems. In using dietary strategies as a treatment for candida overgrowth, a restricted diet should be followed for several weeks. Actually, this diet can be followed for an indeterminate amount of time, and foods can also be added back eventually. This should be done in a gradual, one-at-a-time manner, to determine a specific food's effect. If yeast infection symptoms recur after a particular food is reintroduced, that food should then be avoided.

The main thing to remember as you follow an anti-candida diet is to exclude sugar. The ideas is to guard against the continued growth of yeast and so fortify the immune system, and since sugar is a main food source for yeast, and does not benefit the immune system, it has to be eliminated. Don't just ban granulated sugar, though; also be on guard against honey, corn and maple syrup, fruit, maltose, artificial sweeteners, fructose, cornstarch, sodas, and lactose (a milk sugar found in dairy products).

A second rule of thumb: Follow a yeast free diet in order to deter further yeast induced maladies. Eliminate fermented, or yeast- and mold- containing products such as breads, including muffins, cake, cookies, and other refined carbohydrates; fruit, including fruit juice and dried fruit; cheese, vinegar; pickled and smoked foods; alcohol; mushrooms; tomato sauce (unless it's prepared with fresh tomatoes); nuts; and food products containing monosodium glutamate and hydrolyzed vegetable protein.

Eat natural, healthy foods. These include whole grains (brown rice, millet, amaranth, guinoa, and barley); fresh vegetables; tofu; miso; plain yogurt; lean meats; fresh fish; and eggs from free-range hens. Yeast infection growth may also be held in check by using small amounts of organic extra virgin olive oil.

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