Yeast free Diet ... Help Please?

[icklemoley]

Does anyone know anything about a yeast free diet? As many of you know for the past year and a half i've been dealing with frequent urintaion (frequency, pain, urge, etc...) nothing has come up. I think i have I.C and am being told that a yeast free diet is in order. Does anyone know what that would entail?

Thank you all for your time.

 

[candi]

Wayne,

I looked on the internet and there wasn't really much information strictly for a yeast free diet. I remember a few years ago reading that sugar is a big no-no on this sort of diet. Sorry. Hopefully you'll get some good input from other posters.

 

[Author]

Having had Candida and am now on the other side of it, perhaps I can help.

Candida, by the way, is too much yeast in the body -- it can make you have allergic reactions, irriations in one's unmentionable part of the body, and other different reactions.

First, there is a book called THE YEAST CONNECTION and THE YEAST CONNECTION COOKBOOK by William G. Grook, M.D. and Marjorie Hurt Jones, R.N. This will tell you all you need to know about a diet to clear yeast out of your system.

It's been several years since I had this problem, but in a nutshell, if I remember correctly, the diet was along the lines of this:

No coffee (I had a headache when I went off coffee -- for two days -- I've never again taken up the coffee habit)

No alcohol

No peanuts, beans or legumes

No fruit

No dairy

No sugar -- this is particularly important, as sugar feeds the yeast -- that includes honey or maple syrup or anything sweet. If you must have sweets, use only stevia -- a very sweet herb.

No processed foods of any kind -- no white bread, no white rice, no potatoes, no luncheon meat -- no processed foods

No chocolate or breads as these contain yeast

So what can you eat? Lots.

Here's a list of things that ARE good to eat on this diet:

All vegetables except corn, peas, beans and white potatoes

Whole non-GMO grains -- all except corn, wheat or rye

Nuts

All meats so long as they are not processed (no bacon, however)

Oils -- particularly those high in Omega 3's

Lemon in a drink is okay.

Lots of water.

I also ate eggs -- this book does not recommend eggs, but I had them everyday and still got over the yeast.

I think some people also call this the caveman diet.

It worked for me. But I wouldn't do this without first reading the books recommended. I am no nutritionalist -- just, like you, had yeast infections, and used my diet to get rid of it.

Hope this helps.

 

[icklemoley]

Thank you so much guys for your help. I'm trying to "help me" while the doctors do nothing. I have a pH reading of 8.7 (urine)which is not normal and would indicate that my body is very unwell. I'm trying to get it to a normal level. 6.5-7pH. I have a very acidic diet, and its hurt my body so much. I urinte or have the urge to every 5 minutes of every day. It is killing me. Now i'm taking action. I am trying to figure out if i should try to eat more alkaline foods (fruits, veg, etc...) or start to try and rid this yeast (which i'm sure i have, i've been on anti-biotoics for 12 weeks, 2 twice last year).

Think i'll go for an alkaline diet first, and start with that and see if that helps with my urine. And the urge. I also have pressure and a buring/tingle to urinate. It does not hurt to urinate or burn. They can find nothing. No infections, no stds, nothing, yet suffer i do.

Thanks so much you guys. Your advice and words really help me.

 

[Author]

Hi!

I understand. I am not a nutritionalist nor a medical doctor and so I can't answer medical questions, as I don't have all the data. So this is not medical advice, okay? What I write here are my opinions based on my own experience and the things I read. If you are having this trouble urinating, you might try drinking cranberry juice, just in case there is a bladder infection. Also, cranberry juice just seems to help that area of the body. It's worth a try, and pretty cheap.

Also if you have been on antibiotics for that long, you should be eating yoghart. Antibiotics kill off all the good intestinal bacteria, as well as the bad, and you need the good bacteria in order for the body to process foods correctly and keep the body in balance. Yoghart will help replace this bacteria. Antibiotics also kill off the vitamin B nutrients in your body, so you might supplement with the B vitamins, as well.

Just adding these things to your diet might make a world of difference. Also, you should start drinking green drinks with psyllium (please forgive my misspellings) if that's misspelled. Both of these might help to get you more regular.

Also remember that sugar FEEDS yeast. That's why in the book, they do not recommend that you eat fruit. At least not until the yeast is under control. Yoghart -- replacing the bacterial in the stomach and intestinal tract may do you a world of good. Or get acidopholis -- probably misspelled -- from a Health Food Store -- it's like yohart only has the concentrations of the good bacteria needed in the stomach and intestinal tract.

I'm not a nutritionalist, but I've had kids and have had to get them through things nutrionally speaking and so I read and read and read things about this.

All the above remedies are simply adding certain foods to your diet that you might be short on at the moment. Foods can do a lot toward helping the body to heal itself.

Also, you should get the book that I mentioned above, The Yeast Connection -- it'll really educate you so as to put you in the driver's seat of your own health, I think.

Hope you do better soon.

 

[icklemoley]

Thank you Karen for your information and the time you put in to write that. I really appreicate it.

I am, at the moment, trying to increase the alakline in my body. It is running 0. I need to change that. I will order the book you mentioned, thank you. Because my diet was sooooooo bad (i think one of the main reasons i got sick in the first place) i have to think about adding more veg and fruit back in (at least to begin with) as i haven't eaten any of them for about 2 years. I mean nothing. I've lived off diet coke, etc...anything acid based.

The book is on order, again, i thank you so so much.

 

[karate_chick]

Hi there

I know I'm yeast intollerant (after having a food intollerance test a few years ago.

I was told to give up:

most alcohol (gin & vodka I think were okay - but I don't drink them anyway)
dried fruit
most sauces (hidden ingredient - check the labels)
bread (try rye bread instead)
soy sauce
(I'm sure nuts were on the list too)

I'm not too bad with most 'yeasty' foods now although I don't eat bread, soy sauce and I have to stick to certain makes/bottles of wine cos that can make me feel really poorly.

It's best to check all labels cos I know when I started checking I was horrified to find out how many food stuffs actually contained yeast (especially pre-packaged foods). IMHO, the best plan of action is to eat clean and prepare as many meals as you can from scratch. That way you'll know what's going into them!

Hope that helps and good luck,
Andrea

 

[Author]

Howdy and Good Morning,

I understand. The book will do a lot toward getting you to understand yeast infections and how to get rid of them with nutrition and diet. In your diet, just please be sure to add in yoghart or get some acidopholis (I can't spell it). Antibiotics kill off all the good intestinal bacteria, as well as the bad, and so yoghart or acidopholis will replace it and help toward getting the yeast infection under control.

If you have a Health Food Store, you might go there and tell them your problem. Oftentimes they are informed enough to help -- sometimes not, though.

Yikes! Living off diet coke, as well as antibiotics? Well, at least you're heading in the right direction now. Diet coke also contains chemical sweetners, that have their own side effects. Did you know that aspartane (again my spellingx( ) was once listed as a potiential bio-chemical weapon? It's history reads like a movie of the maffia, if you ever care to look it up.

Anyway, you might seriously consider adding yoghart into your diet, as well.

Have a good one.

 

[WD]

Wayne,
I just bought the Adkin's New Diet Cookbook for new recipe ideas. I was noticing it had a yeast free diet plan in it and list of foods to avoid. I thought of you. You might check it out. There were aa few foods there that I hadn't thought of. It also gives a seven day menu.
Diane Sue