Week 3 - Day 7

(Apr. 30, 2011)

It only takes one dose of antibiotics to raise your yeast and create imbalance in your body.  This is where the vicious cycle occurs.  

Infection - antibiotic - wipes out good and bad bacteria - candida multiplies - yeast mycotoxins take over the body as yeast multiplies - weakens the immune system - back to Infection.

Even though antibiotics to save thousands of lives, the fact is, Americans use too many antibiotics.  We have overprescribed medications and now the overuse has created "super germs" that are resistant to common antibiotics, so germs that could once be killed off have now become life threatening.
    "The Candida Cure" - by Ann Boroch

This is what has happened over and over again with my daughter.  It's a vicious cycle that her body is have a hard time breaking.

We started out with breakfast with cinnamon rolls.  Jeannette was going over to a girlfriends house after an activity so I had to get her lunch and snacks ready.  Actually, I was asked by the mom if she could take the girls to McDonald's for lunch after their game and I had to tell her that Jeannette is on a very restrictive diet and that she won't be able to eat McDonald's.   I explained to her that Jeannette has this yeast overgrowth, possibly due to the amount of antibiotics that she's been exposed to for the past 3 years.  She said she totally understood and that she herself has certain food limitations and has to be very careful with what she eats.  She was very familiar with the Candida diet.  She followed it for awhile and is not following a gluten-free diet.  She said that on the rare occasion that she does have something very sugary, she doesn't feel very well 24-48 hours afterwards.

I was surprised and relieved at the same time to find someone who completely understands where I'm coming from.  It's amazing what you'll learn if you just talk to people about it.  I gained a great bit of information from this woman today.  She gave me great snack ideas and she even created a new way to eat Jeannette's rice cakes to make it more fun.  I get so caught up in all of this, that I loose sight of fun.  What is that? Because this diet certainly hasn't been fun.

So while Jeannette was at her friends house, I packed her some rice cakes, soy nut butter, chocolate coconut milk, popcorn and carob chips.  To make her rice cakes more fun, she spread the soy nut butter on the cake and then she sprinkled the carob chips on top of it.  Jeannette loved it!

For dinner the kids had brown rice pasta with non-dairy butter and parmesan cheese.  She also had a yogurt with the probiotic.  They made popcorn later.  My son, who really has been very supportive, helped make her popcorn and used her non-dairy butter.