Need a natural treatment for vaginal yeast infection in toddler please!

[Guest guest]

As I posted on here last week I believe, my 15 month old daughter has

pneumonia. They put her on a STRONG antibiotic for it because they

didn't want to mess around with pneumonia. I was trying to give her

more yogurt and also supplemented with acidophilus twice a day, but

apparently it wasn't enough because she now has a yeast infection.

 

The doctor's office said to put Lotrimin on it which I'm not crazy

about, but I can see how red and irritated it is and felt I should do

something. I think it's also irritating her when she urinates.

 

Are there other things that I can do? She has 3 more days of the

antibiotics. If I keep up with the acidophilus afterwards, will she

eventually balance out?

 

Thanks,

Paula

[Guest guest]

You're doing the right thing with the probiotics Paula. Just keep it

up. The antibiotics will have wiped out all the good bacteria in her

gut. Maybe you need to up the dose of the probiotics?

 

With an adult I would suggest taking both Bifidobacterium bifidum for

the large intestine and Lactobacillus acidophilus for the small

intestine. But with a 15 month old I am not sure... perhaps this one?

http://www.natren.com/life_start.asp

 

I have heard of women using live culture acidophilus yogurt for

douching for vaginal yeast infections, but I have no idea how this

would work with a toddler - just thought I would mention it.

 

Also, if she is having pain with urination, the bladder may also be

infected... how about some cranberry juice?

 

 

I hope this has been of a little help at least?

 

Since a yeast infection is Candida albicans overgrowth perhaps search

the net for 'treating candida in children' or similar.

[Guest guest]

Hi Paula:

 

I raised four daughters, three of which had chronic ear infections.

Sometimes you really need the antibiotic to get rid of the bacteria.

As far as the yeast infection goes, get that Lotramin on her and get

that wiped out as well. Yogurt, etc. will not work so well on a

toddler once the yeast has taken over. Don't feel bad about putting

the antifungal on her, she's wearing a diaper and that makes it worse.

I would also suggest letting her run around with no diaper on, let

her air out, get some sunshine on the yeast, that will help kill it too.

 

Hopefully, this helps....sometimes we have to use antibiotics and

anitfungals especially on little ones, their bodies aren't as strong

as ours in fighting off bacteria and infection. If you don't get rid

of the yeast, it will come back again and again, especially as your

daughter matures, and she will be miserable and above all, we don't

want that.

 

Again, I hope this helps you....

 

Karen

 

PS You'll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly the Lotrimin will get

rid of the yeast infection.

 

, " Paula "

<pokeracepj wrote:

>

> As I posted on here last week I believe, my 15 month old daughter has

> pneumonia. They put her on a STRONG antibiotic for it because they

> didn't want to mess around with pneumonia. I was trying to give her

> more yogurt and also supplemented with acidophilus twice a day, but

> apparently it wasn't enough because she now has a yeast infection.

>

> The doctor's office said to put Lotrimin on it which I'm not crazy

> about, but I can see how red and irritated it is and felt I should do

> something. I think it's also irritating her when she urinates.

>

> Are there other things that I can do? She has 3 more days of the

> antibiotics. If I keep up with the acidophilus afterwards, will she

> eventually balance out?

>

> Thanks,

> Paula

>

[Guest guest]

http://www.naturalnews.com/023191.html

 

Control Candida in Two Weeks

by Kal Sellers (see all articles by this author)

 

 

(NaturalNews) The need for this article is both current and

long-standing. The current Candida diets are unhealthy, lengthy,

unwise and simply not all that effective. On the other hand, there is

no reason that Candida cannot be totally controlled in a few days to

two weeks for most cases -- a few cases may take longer than that.

 

At the roots of the Candida problem are several issues, few of which

are ever addressed in a way that shows any understanding of nature and

her laws.

 

Before we address those issues, let us just review a few points of

basic Candida pathology.

 

First: Candida albicans is one type of yeast. It normally exists in a

healthy gut and helps it to function better. It, as with all the flora

in the gut, escapes sometimes into the blood and is corralled by the

immune system in a few hours. Candida is one species of yeast. It is

not pathogenic unless it mutates (which it does in the right

environment) and it will be unaffected, generally, by other yeasts and

yeast by-products taken into the body.

 

Second: Candida as a pathology first appeared as a consequence of

antibiotics, which do not kill Candida, but which kill other friendly

flora which would prevent Candida from overgrowing in the same way

many trees in a rain forest prevent one species from owning everything.

 

When Candida appeared as a pathology, people getting diagnosed were

very sick, on the verge of death. This condition is actually very

rare, even though Candida seems to be everywhere.

 

Third: Candida mutates when given lots of food and no restraint of

territory (i.e. the other friendly flora have died). It will become

something pathogenic that is believed to drill holes in the intestines

and enter the blood en masse. Once there, it roots in, so to speak,

and is difficult to remove.

 

When Candida is in the blood in any quantity, the person will have a

variety of symptoms and will not feel well. The person may have a

compromised immune system or have evidence of fungal growth on the

skin or mucus membranes. The person may be tired or otherwise affected

systemically.

 

Fourth: Candida lives off of sugar and alcohol. It prefers slightly

fermented sugars.

 

With this challenge, how can we regain control quickly and effectively

without putting someone on a diet that is worse than the disease?

 

To answer this, we need to simply understand that there are three key

areas that need to be addressed when we treat Candida.

 

1. Inhibiting the Candida itself

 

2. Healing the immune system to respond to the problem

 

3. Feeding the person, while starving the Candida

 

1) Inhibiting the Candida itself is the simplest step to address. It

involves using substances that will inhibit Candida without any harm

to the person.

 

Traditionally, I have used Dr. Christopher's Original Formulas Yellow

Dock Combination. This formula is only sold in the bulk now because of

its content of comfrey (which I believe to be integral to its

effectiveness and desirable in any type of yeast problem). Although it

is available encapsulated, the ingredients are different from the bulk

formula. I use the powdered bulk formula either stirred into juice or

encapsulated.

 

I also like bayberry and everyone uses Pau d' Arco, which is certainly

effective.

 

These herbs together or separate will inhibit Candida growth. This is

helpful, though not necessarily vital, to the overall Candida battle.

I would probably use all three of the above options in small doses

every day for the two weeks.

 

When any of my young children get thrush, we always have cured it in

just a day or two with white oak bark tea (placed on the nipple and in

the mouth of the baby). White oak bark is strongly anti-fungal. White

oak bark is in the Yellow Dock Combination.

 

This is pretty much all I do from a standpoint of a direct attack on

Candida. I do not use Colloidal Silver because it is such an

indiscriminate killer.

 

2) Healing the immune system to respond to the problem involves

several levels of healing activity.

 

These steps are as follows:

 

a. Flora replacement is done with rejuvelac. Our method of using

rejuvelac in smoothies for optimal value is treated in detail in

Traci's Transformational Kitchen Recipe Collection, found on

(www.bestfoodist.com) .

 

The prudent use of fruit and why it is vital to use during Candida

troubles is treated later in this article.

 

In addition to replacing the over 300 varieties of flora in the gut

with rejuvelac, it is important to feed the new seedlings

(metaphorically speaking) plenty of healthy fertilizer and superfoods.

This means lots of raw vegetation (flora eats the cellulose we cannot

digest) and lots of inulin. Inulin is extracted from burdock or

elecampane root by decocting it for several hours (instructions for

decocting are found in Preparations Printout available free on

(www.KalsSchool.com) on the Downloads page under Free Info).

 

b. Immune foods are the next step. This always means a superfood

containing at least spirulina and seaweeds, but the immune food I use

most in my practice is what I call I-Charge (Immune-Charge). This is

made from equal parts of specially prepared tinctures of garlic,

cayenne and Echinacea (you can email me to get the recipe).

 

In addition to this, lots of healthy minerals from sea salt, seaweeds

and mineral springs (such as TJ Clark Mine produces in Utah) will

replace minerals needed as markers and ingredients for key immune

response systems and components.

 

c. Reactive foods are the final and absolutely vital step in healing

the immune system. You can read about food reactions in detail in an

article called Understanding Food Reactions, which is available for

free at (www.KalsSchool.com) on the Downloads Page, under the Free

Info tab.

 

Food reactions will be discussed again later in connection with the

next point, but in relation to the immune system, it is vital to

understand that if you are constantly taking in foods that you react

to, your endocrine system (and all immune system components) will

become exhausted, stressed and depleted.

 

Thus there is no chance of having a healthy immune system so long as

you are eating foods that you have a reaction to on a regular basis.

 

In the above mentioned article, " Understanding Food Reactions " the

subject of how to discover, cure and prevent food reactions is treated

in detail.

 

3) Feeding the person, while starving the Candida is the least

understood step in the process of healing Candida quickly, though

ironically, it is the most discussed and the most effort is placed here.

 

Generally, the position is taken that anything that might feed Candida

must be eliminated and this would include all sources of sugar and any

slowly-breaking-down starch or difficult-to-digest food.

 

This position is about half right. We will deal with the issues in

more detail now.

 

I will break this subject up like the others and cover the details

that should be understood or learned differently.

 

a. No fermentation is the first step in feeding the person but not the

Candida. Sugar that is fermented feeds Candida, but not you. This

includes alcohol, but also includes any sugar that can be chemically

changed through fermentation.

 

Regular sugar feeds Candida too, but if that sugar is usable to you,

it will feed you much faster than the Candida and is less of a threat.

Fermented sugar only feeds Candida and cancer cells. Not good.

 

Here we shall drop the first very important bombshell on my list: The

most important key to avoiding fermentation is to digest your food

completely.

 

This means several things:

 

i. Chew your food very thoroughly. I would not be surprised to

discover that raw foodists who are still struggling with Candida,

universally fail to chew their food to a paste before swallowing. This

means that holes and chasms exist in the food that will resist mixing

with digestive juices, but which will be in the perfect condition to

ferment.

 

ii. Take cayenne pepper in water (work up to ¼ teaspoon of cayenne in

any amount of water) 15 minutes before each meal to optimize digestion

like nothing else on earth I know of.

 

iii. Renew your digestion with at least monthly 3-5 day juice fasts

where you consume lots of carrot juice with lots of greens (preferably

including chard, beets and greens, parsley and asparagus). This will

take your digestion back in time about 20 years and will help you

avoid overeating, which is the next point.

 

iv. Avoid overeating as this poses the same problem as inadequate

chewing. This will leave food that ferments instead of digesting.

 

v. Avoid foods that you cannot digest, such as your reactive foods

(discussed below) and processed foods and wheat, dairy, white sugar,

protein powders, etc. All grains and beans should be sprouted if dry

(green beans are okay to eat without sprouting). Undigested food

particles in the blood are guaranteed to feed every undesirable

condition and invader, but not you.

 

vi. Avoid combining proteins and starches and fruit with anything.

Always eat fruit on an empty stomach. More details about this rule and

its exceptions can be found in Traci's Transformational Health

Principles, available for free at (www.bestfoodist.com) . Fruit will

heal you and will actually repel Candida in several ways provided that

it digests, rather than ferments. This means eating it on an empty

stomach and chewing it completely.

 

b. Having no food reactions is a good goal. A strong reaction to a

food eaten regularly, will not only exhaust the immune system, it will

also ensure that food and other foods eaten at the same time do not

fully digest.

 

These undigested food particles will feed yeast, thicken the blood,

and create acidity and disease.

 

Reactive foods do not digest because the immune system responds to

such an extent that digestion is stopped or greatly inhibited. This

will also exhaust the immune system such that it cannot fight Candida

overgrowths that do appear.

 

c. Lots of healthy glucose is the last thing that anyone expects to

hear recommended on a Candida diet. I think it is important to notice,

however, that people with Candida troubles are already sick, I do not

understand how starving them will help.

 

There is nothing in this world you need more than high quality glucose

and oxygen. The oxygen is a separate discussion, but glucose is vital.

Your body knows this and the process of replacing glucose, if it is

absent from the body, is one that will definitely feed Candida.

 

The first thing that happens when your body is low on glucose is that

a hormone is secreted from your brain saying that it is starving and

it needs more glucose. This hormone (called ACTH) causes the adrenals

to release cortisol (which causes a mess if released too often due to

stress or bad dietary choices) which causes two important things to

happen: First, the body cells release protein (for manufacture into

glucose in the liver -- a process that pulls out water, minerals and

other nutrients and causes deficiency). Second, those same cells

become glucose resistant.

 

The protein is taken to the liver where a toxic form of glucose

synthesis takes place. Understand that this process is natural and

normal and no problem for your body if it happens once in a while.

When it happens a lot, there is a problem.

 

The glucose is released into the blood and the brain takes up all it

can. Immediately, however, there is an excess of glucose (a sugar) in

the blood which your body cells will not readily take up because the

cortisol made them glucose resistant.

 

Normal cells will not take it up, but cancer cells and Candida have no

such inhibitions!

 

The body will whip the pancreas to release high levels of insulin to

get that sugar into the cells (where it is needed) and out of the

blood (where it can cause problems).

 

This is a less desirable process to simply eating plenty of high

quality glucose in the first place. This means ripe fruit, honey,

sprouts and raw vegetables. Generally, I am in the habit of

recommending a piece of fruit 20 minutes before each meal. If you are

taking cayenne, you can take the cayenne fifteen minutes before this

or 5 minutes later, both seem to work.

 

I also recommend just fruit for breakfast. This feeds the body cells

and will not hang out in the blood for Candida to eat or blood sugar

to increase. This will build up glycogen stores (which are depleted in

most people) which will release glucose anytime it is needed so that

the whole cortisol process does not have to take place.

 

Sugars that are immediately usable by the body are no threat. This

includes whole sugars with enzymes in tact and trace minerals and

water to aid in their use. This is what you get from ripe fruit,

honey, sprouts and raw non-starchy vegetables.

 

This plan is simply an understanding of what the body really needs to

be healthy. It needs high quality glucose and oxygen in its cells, not

its blood.

 

It follows, once more, that the fruit, or any food, should be chewed

completely and all fruit should be eaten on an empty stomach. This

ensures that the fruit digests, rather than ferments. Fruit in the

stomach with any other food will ferment and certainly feed the Candida.

 

Candida is a pretty trippy subject right now. There are elements of

the Candida struggle that are out of our control, such as modern

houses, EM radiation, microwave radiation on wireless devices and

Microwave ovens -- all of which encourage mutation in Candida and

malfunction in the human immune system.

 

We also deal with toxins in our air and water. We can put filters on

our home water (I put one on mine for less than 100 dollars and

installed it myself in one morning) and air systems, but just

breathing outside air may infuse us with synthetic fibers that promote

fugal growth and hide this growth from normal, natural defenses.

 

My experience suggests, however, that wise use of natural methods that

are in our control is still enough. I hope it will continue to be. We

can cut down the microwave and EM radiation we are exposed to. We also

can think healthier thoughts and resist the down trend in thinking

that accompanies a toxic world full of people who are struggling to

express their love for one another (though, I generally find that most

people really do have that love).

 

I believe you can take control of your health in any situation in

life. If you really cannot, then focus on what you can control and

fall in love with that for now. Be grateful for what you can do and

for the challenges that keep you interested in doing better. Focus on

gratitude and your ability to do better will be gradually increased.

 

Thanks for reading, Kal Sellers, MH

 

About the author

Kal Sellers, MH is a lifelong student and practitioner of the natural

healing arts.

Kal is a Master Herbalist, a Massage Therapist, Technician of the Rolf

Method of Structural Integration, Iridologist, Mind-Body Medicine

Practitioner, Mental Re-programmer, Life Coach, Natural Nutritionist,

Reflexologist and more.

Kal is currently attending Life University in preparation for

chiropractic school.

Kal currently operates and maintains www.KalsSchool.com an on-line

school for natural healing and herbal medicine.

Kal also maintains www.BestFoodist.com as the website for the

distribution of his and his wife's books on natural nutrition and

companion recipe book (Traci's Transformational Kitchen Cookbook and

Traci's Transformational Health Principles).

Kal and Traci have five children, the last three of which were

delivered at home, the last by Kal. They live now in Powder Springs,

GA where they maintain live classes on food and medicine for anyone

choosing to master medical independence and life-long optimal health!

 

 

 

 

-- In , " Paula "

<pokeracepj wrote:

>

> As I posted on here last week I believe, my 15 month old daughter has

> pneumonia. They put her on a STRONG antibiotic for it because they

> didn't want to mess around with pneumonia. I was trying to give her

> more yogurt and also supplemented with acidophilus twice a day, but

> apparently it wasn't enough because she now has a yeast infection.

>

> The doctor's office said to put Lotrimin on it which I'm not crazy

> about, but I can see how red and irritated it is and felt I should do

> something. I think it's also irritating her when she urinates.

>

> Are there other things that I can do? She has 3 more days of the

> antibiotics. If I keep up with the acidophilus afterwards, will she

> eventually balance out?

>

> Thanks,

> Paula

>