Without testing you are clueless to what is going on with your body and quite possibly, you are trying everything you can find with no success and its costing you a fortune! Not to mention the frustration and feeling of helplessness.

Food allergies are a major problem for 75% of the people with chronic yeast. Years of eating the wrong foods that trigger antibody production unknown to the person going thru this, weakens the immune system over time. Add an antibiotic at one time or another and bingo, the candida yeast is off to the races.

Environmental toxins further weaken your body and immune system as they accumulate in the soft tissues. Excess heavy metals can give the candida yeast food in lean times. Candida yeast can attach to these molecules and travel throughout your body taking up residence elsewhere causing additional problems.

Candida tests and other health tests can give you the information you need to get to the heart and soul of what is wrong with you. This allows you to take the steps needed to put your health and life back together. You should seriously consider them for your own sake.

The most common candida test can be performed by your doctor or obgyn. During a full blown vaginal yeast infection they can take a culture to determine the species. This is very helpful in the regard that certain species respond to certain prescription drugs better than others.

Candida glabrata for instance is another candida species that infects men and women in 25 to 35% of cases and is resistant to the drug diflucan. Glabrata responds well to topical flucytosine or topical boric acid. Candida tropicalis is also resistant to diflucan.

Other species can also cause vaginal yeast infections and each responds better to certain drugs and is resistant to others. Candida testing can sort this out for you, so you are taking the right prescription drug the first time, and not creating a drug resistant monster.

Note: I must add that if you treat your yeast infection by prescription means. You are still going to have to restore the body to health to prevent any reinfection with probiotics.

An Organic Acids candida test is all inclusive and an ok candida test that also checks 40 other metabolic functions of cellular physiology. This candida test includes compromised energy production, neurotransmitter metabolism, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and intestinal dysbiosis. Intestinal dysbiosis measures the byproducts of bacterial and yeast metabolism that are excreted in urine. High readings indicate an overgrowth of yeast in the body. It also measures amino acid needs relative to your health status, genetic tendencies, aging and oxidative status.

Clinically these markers offer valuable information into possible causative factors of dysfunctional cellular physiology; affecting one’s physical and mental performance, and overall health status. This test is invaluable for putting ones cellular health back together and getting to the root cause of your candida yeast infection so you get it under control for life.

The test results are very user friendly and come with supplement recommendations from doctors that believe in natural means to treat and prevent disease.

It is also available so you can check on many everyday chemicals we are all exposed to that have proven to cause neuropsychological, and neuropsychological dysfunction, leukopaenia, dyspnoea, anemia, and certain cancers, to name but a few.

Or you can have your doctor do whats called a SpectraCell Analysis for any vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This test is the most accurate available and the one I do myself every couple of years. It checks what the vitamin and mineral levels are inside the cell. Most medical insurance covers part of the test so your not stuck paying for the entire thing, at least my plan does.

Then have your doctor do a Candida Antibody blood test to check for any candida yeast infection. Make sure the test measures IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies to candida as well. This is extremely important because the IG antibodies will tell you if you presently have an infection or not.

IgM antibodies will tell you if you have an infection right now or not.

IgG antibodies reflect a past or ongoing infection.

IgA will reflect a more superficial infection or an infection that is on the outside surface of the mucousal linings of the body.

Basic Hormone Candida Tests are available to determine possible causes of recurring vaginal yeast infections, usually to much estrogen. The test is done by saliva testing and is extremely accurate. This is the best way to determine if your hormones are out of balance, blood testing has to many false readings. High estrogen levels raise vaginal sugar levels and this feeds yeast. The side benefits of correcting any hormone imbalances is relief from premenstrual syndrome and a strengthened immune system among others.

This test is also available in a 3 panel hormone test instead of 5.

A Mercury Analysis should be done to determine if you have to much mercury in the body. This is a very important test because yeast is an immune system reaction to excess heavy metals, mostly mercury. Yeast has the ability to absorb its weight of this poisonous molecule rendering it harmless to the body. It can also bind to excess iron and use it as a means of travel throughout the body.

Individuals with high levels of either one of these heavy metals, especially mercury, will not be able to get rid of the candida yeast unless they address the problem.

A blood antigen Food Allergy candida test is extremely useful to get to more of the causes of candida yeast infections throughout the body. True food allergies are defined when the body produces antibodies to certain foods that the individual is allergic to. These allergies can be mistaken for colds or even give you a cold over time as the immune system becomes worn down from the constant battle of trying to remove these toxic substances from your body. Other symptoms can include fatigue, headache, anxiety, as well as itchy runny nose and puffy eyelids, and the allergies that caused them may go unrecognized for years.

It has been proven that food allergies lead to arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders, autoimmune disease, eczema, and migraines in certain individuals. These chronic illnesses take years to develop but the result is always the same.

These tests usually screen for 100's of different foods that are typical of the standard american diet. There are also vegetarian tests and both tests can be ordered with Environmental Pollutants added as well.

If you find your allergic to a wide range of foods you probably have leaky gut syndrome and will need to address it.

You can also take the yeast infection questionnaire for free and see how you score. A score above 150 will pretty much confirm dysbiosis, which is behind all of the candida and 96% of irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis cases. The Organic acids test would be more accurate though since it is a real test.

Then there is the candida spit test that you probably have heard about. All you do is spit into a glass of water before you get out of bed in the morning. Just roll over and spit into a glass that you placed by the bed from the night before. If the spit turns stringy and spider webby then you more than likely have an overgrowth of yeast. If after 15 to 30 minutes there is brown sediment in the bottom of the glass, you probably have parasites.

Stool candida tests can be ordered through a doctor as well to check for good bacteria and yeast. Many times people are missing entire species of bacteria and this is the root of their problems. Other times levels are very low and this is also an issue. Low or non-existent bacteria is a major cause of chronic yeast infections.

However, candida glabrata can live right along side of normal bacterial levels because it does not attach to the intestinal wall. Candida albicans does attach and good bacteria crowds it out so it is important to know these levels if your not having any success getting rid of it. Stool tests can detect the species as well.

You are more than welcome to ask for my opinion of any of these candida test results. I will more than happy to give you my thoughts and strategies on how to deal with what the tests determined.

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