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How To Diagnose Candida in The Stomach How Do I Know I Have Candida In The Stomach?

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Channel: CanXida · 2016 · Education

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Greetings! Eric Bakker. Naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the CanXida range of products. Thank you again for looking at my video. I've got a question here from a lady called Karen Dresser in London. Beautiful London. What a beautiful city. Karen's asking me: "Eric, how do I diagnose Candida in the stomach? How do I know I have Candida in my stomach?" 

Well, I got an email from Karen, and Karen's symptoms sound very much like a helicobacter pylori infection, or a bacterial infection of the stomach. So Karen's symptoms include lots of reflux, lots of burping, lots of heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disease. She's reacting quite strongly to many different foods that she's eating or drinking, which is very interesting. 

When you get a very powerful instant reaction to different foods, when you have a low-grade feeling of queasiness or nauseous, or sickness, when you're burping like a bullfrog and you're burping and bloating all the time, it generally doesn't mean in my opinion an acute yeast infection. It's more a bacterial problem of the upper digestive system. H-pylori or Helicobacter infections are very common. In fact, up to 30 to 40 percent of people now in the developed world have this bacteria problem. Unfortunately, too many people take these PPI drugs-Proton Pump Inhibitors or acid blocking drugs like Nexium. Billion-dollar business blocking acid. What an incredible thing to do to someone. Just give them a drug to block acid. It's really disgusting. Instead of finding out the reason why they've got it. 

So, have I got Candida in the stomach? I don't think you have Karen, judging by your email. It sounds much more like a bacterial infection. You've also mentioned here that you're getting significant relief when you're taking acid blocking medication. So, what I would like you to do is to do a breath test. You can do a test where you breath into a small tube or a balloon and the gasses get analyzed for hydrogen or methane, different types of gasses, and we will soon know what's going on. 

In this case, the patient swallows a small amount of lactulose, it's like a sugar, and within a half an hour period of time they breath these gasses out and they get analyzed for the presence of these gasses. We know that if it's bacteria, it will quickly produce these gasses. That doesn't happen in Candida's case. You don't really get this hydrogen or methane production from yeast. You get it from bacteria. You don't tend to get the strong sugar cravings with a bacterial infection like H-pylori that you do with a yeast infection. 
Yeast infections of the gut generally are lower down than the stomach, and they generally involve the small intestine and the large intestine a lot more than the stomach. 

The stomach contains a lower pH and a more hostile environment for Candida. Candida lives in an area with a little bit of a higher pH. Particularly lower down, the colon region is very much where yeast likes to live. But it also tends to live in the jejunum and ileum, the terminal parts of the small bowel. It will be present in the duodenum as what we call it. But I find that through testing and through reading a lot of reports that it tends to favor lower down in the middle and the latter part of the small intestine and especially the colon. It also likes to live around the valve regions like the ileocecal valve. The connection between the large and small intestine is where Candida will often live. 

So I hope that answers your question about that how we diagnose Candida and how do I know I've got it in the stomach. My recommendations for you are to get it checked out with the breath test, the fecal antigen test, and the serum antigen test. Doing all those three. Better still, check out my videos on H-pylori and then see if you're going to get relief from that. 

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