Week 4 - Day 2

(May 2, 2011)

I've been reading The Candida Cure book and really getting a wealth of information from it.  It's so fascinating yet educational at the same time.  One thing that struck me today when reading was how naive the medical community is in regards to intestinal and systemic candidiasis as a health condition.  That's a broad statement, but it took me 5 doctors to finally find one that even did a urine yeast culture.  When I went to the pediatricians office for Jeannette's physical, the doctor said she wasn't surprised considering the amount of antibiotics she'd been on.  Well, if she wasn't surprised, then why didn't she take that into consideration a long time ago and save my family a lot of heartache?  I'm not saying that the Candida is the end all diagnosis to my daughters problems, but it sure would have been nice to have found out awhile ago.

I also came upon the section of the book where it provides a list of questions to determine if it's a possibility that I could have Candida.  I'm afraid to answer the questions as I'm quite sure I know the outcome.  Some weird symptoms that I've had would lead me to believe that I could have it too.  Now this questionnaire won't provide and automatic yes or no.  "This questionnaire, developed by William G. Crook, M.D, lists factors in our medical history that promote the growth of Candida albicans as well as symptoms commonly found in individuals with yeast-connected illness."

This morning Jeannette's breakfast consisted of brown rice cereal and the leftover smoothie from yesterday.  For lunch I packed her cinnamon toast/truvia, strawberries, and chocolate coconut milk.  For snack she had 2 rice cakes.  Are we seeing a pattern here? The same thing after 4 weeks.  This is so ridiculous.  I need help!!!!! When Jeannette came home today, I decided to give her the yogurt with the probiotic in it then.  I thought this would be another way to get in another dose of her probiotic.  The second dose I can put in her shake.  The nutritionist said that she should be taking the probiotic at least twice daily while she's on the Diflucan.  Again, the yogurt is not the first choice, but I'm working with what I can do right now.

For dinner, she had leftover meatloaf, leftover strawberries from lunch which she never finished and her shake.  Tonight I put in chlorella, tru fiber, probiotic, and all the rest of the supplements she's taking.  The color was a disgusting brownish color because of the chlorella, but she still drank it.  The chlorella is supposed to detoxify your body, boost your immune system and increase your energy.  The tru fiber is an alternative to the miralax and is supposed to help with her constipation.  We'll see.

Tonight something funny happened to Jeannette.  Prior to dinner my husband was doing a tick check of her head.  Now that it's getting nice outside and the kids are out playing more, and the fact that Loudoun County ranks the highest for lyme's disease, I didn't want to take any chances.  Anyway, her scalp was pink in several spots.  It wasn't in one spot, but there were random dots of pink throughout her scalp.  I kept thinking that this could be an allergic reaction to one of the supplements that we're giving her.  I was starting to freak out a bit.  I kept thinking that we're going to have to take her off of the supplements and then reintroduce them to her one at a time to see if he body reacts.  I wasn't going to be surprised of this if it was the case considering all that she is taking.  Well, she showered and sure enough the pink spots were gone.  We asked her about it prior to her showering and she just clammed up and didn't say anything, so we had nothing to go on.  We finally got the true story.  Her and a friend were upstairs playing in her mother's bathroom when they found a can of colored hair spray.  They decided to take it upon themselves to spray paint their hair pink.  When the father found out what they had done, they tried to wash it out themselves.  Jeannette missed a few spots.  I got a big laugh out of it once I found out the true story, but here I was panicking because I thought it was all these medications.  You just never know!