Getting rid of a yeast infection in the intestines is not as simple as treating a vaginal candida infection. With a vaginal yeast infection you can purchase an OTC anti yeast cream, and then in a high percentage of cases the Candida is gone for good. When you suffer with Candida in your intestines anti fungal oral medicines can make your infection worse.

Most people with intestinal yeast infections head straight for an oral anti fungal medicine to cure the problem. The trouble with oral anti fungal drugs is these powerful pills kill all of the bacteria in your intestines, and they can also weaken your immune system.

When an oral anti bacterial drug wipes out every single bacteria in your intestines it leaves the environment in a perfect condition for bacteria and yeasts to start mutating. This mutating fungus is what is causing your symptoms, so an anti bacterial drug will only make your symptoms worse.

Your intestines should be populated with friendly bacteria to help fight off the mutating Candida. If the balance gets too far in favor of the Candidayeast then your infection becomes more difficult to successfully treat. If it’s left long enough without the correct treatment your fungal infection can become systemic. This simply means it will get into your bloodstream, and start attacking your internal organs.

Your body also needs a perfectly working immune system to help fight off the Candida infection. anti fungal drugs weaken the immune system so you end up with a weaker immune system, and no friendly bacteria in your intestines. This is why anti bacterial drugs are the biggest cause of Candida infections.

A Candida infection in your intestines has be cured naturally, and alongside an anti yeast protocol. Even if you start treating your infection without anti bacterial drugs, and you make errors with your diet or your medication, you won’t cure yourself.

If you’re permanently on prescription medicines for an illness, and they have an effect on your immune system then your intestinal yeast infection will take longer to successfully treat. If you carry on eating a regular diet that contains foods that feed the mutated yeast then you won’t cure yourself at all.

Treating yourself naturally, and correctly will kill the mutated fungus, encourage the re-growth of friendly bacteria in your intestines, and also repair the cell damage caused by the mutated Candida.