Week 3 - Day 4

(Apr. 27, 2011)

What causes an overgrowth of Candida?  The major causes are antibiotics, steroids, birth control, poor diet, heavy metals, alcohol overuse, recreational drugs, stress and several others.  I could think of 3 of these that fit her profile: overuse of antibiotics, poor diet and heavy metals.  She's had so many urinary tract infections in the past 3 years that she's been on so many antibiotics.  Her poor diet hasn't helped and because of the environment that we live in, it's no surprise there are heavy metals.  We live on a golf course, next to a buffalo and diary farm, and also next to a medical facility where their effluent is dispersed into one of our streams.

"Yeast overgrowth thrives in the presence of diets high in refined sugars, refined carbohydrates, diary products, alcohol, processed foods... The fungus doesn't care whether the increased sugar in your body is due to eating a candy bar or having an episode of extreme stress; it will use the sugar as fuel to reproduce itself." - The Candida Cure book

Boy, breakfast is getting pretty predictable.  She had cinnamon rolls again.  For lunch she had brown rice w/ non-dairy butter, and a mini container of soy nut butter with her probiotic mixed in.  Yesterday she had plain soy nut butter, so why not give it to her with the probiotic mixed in.   Considering she's supposed to be getting the probiotic 2-3 times a day while on the diflucan, I have to find any way I can.  Unfortunately, she didn't eat it, so that was a waste.  For snack I packed popcorn and a rice cake.  Boring, once again.  Today after school, Jeannette came home with her water bottle full.  I've had this discussion with her multiple times as to how important it is to drink her water.  I would even love it if she would fill it up 2 times while at school.  Part of her constipation is due to lack of hydration.  So I bribed her.  I asked her what she wanted the most as an incentive to get her to drink the water and bring me home an empty water bottle.  She said, "100 cents.  No $100 dollars."  I said, I couldn't do the $100, but I could manage the $1.  It was a deal.

For dinner tonight, Jeannette had the leftover homemade pizza, a yogurt with the probiotic, and her supplemental shake.