Candida & Dr. Yadav

After trying the FODMAP diet, things were going really well at first. Then I added back foods with FODMAP for one month before I maxed out the threshold which caused the IBS symptoms to have a party all over again.

I then went back to FODMAP diet but the IBS wouldn't shut up and quiet down!

It even reached to a point that chicken, fish and EVERY SINGLE thing that I ate triggered IBS. I had even stopped having rice. The intestines were churning out rap songs, vibrato passages and electronic music. Sometimes I could even hear an orchestra in there. 

That was when the kinesiologist's diagnosis of Candida being the cause of my IBS lit a 1,000,000 watt bulb in my brain.  

How could I get Candida even when I wasn't having sugar, gluten or even rice?

And then it hit me.

PPIs!

NEXIUM.

20 years of Nexium off and on. I've had GERD since I was 19. And I'm 40 this year. It's been break-up and then make-up with Nexium. I hate it, can't stand it but when it's gone, my stomach goes bonkers, has a breakdown and meltdown and Nexium is back in my life again. 

Click on LINK to read about GERD.

Nexium is a PPI (Proton Pump Inhibitor). It reduces acid in the stomach so that the acid reflux would not injure the stomach lining and esophagus. 

And that is when the sinister characters are able to infiltrate the gut. Bacteria and fungi are able to create havoc in the gut. Especially H pylori and Candida. 

So the million dollar question would be "How shall I get rid of Candida"?

Do I even have Candida in the first place? Why was I never tested for Candida?

I then decided to see Dr. Yadav about it. Maybe this Candida thing had something to do with screwing up my immune system. 

The night before I saw him, I had a terrible episode of IBS. This time I broke out in hives! This has never happened to me before. I started itching from head to toe. It was as though I had hundreds and thousands of ants crawling all over me. I felt so terribly sick that I woke my hubby up in the middle of the night and told him that something was so very wrong. He of course went into panic mode. (The anaphylaxis episode 8 years ago flashed before his eyes.) I swallowed a Piriton antihistamine and then monitored myself. The hives and itch disappeared. 

Morning finally arrived. We went to see Dr. Yadav. Stoned and groggy like the Walking Dead, I stumbled into his office and related to him what had happened. He said that I had eaten something which had some bacterial activity and I had a reaction to the toxin that the bacteria produced!

What did I eat? And then it struck me. I had forgotten about some food which I had cooked and left it on the dining table for a few hours. Even though it smelt good and tasted good after reheating it to boiling point, the bacteria had taken a foothold in the food. And I basically had food poisoning (with no diarrhoea)!

So we talked about Candida. I told him I read about Nystatin being a good medication for Candida. He said that it is and it's one of the pioneer drugs for Candida. The good thing about Nystatin is that it does not get absorbed into the blood stream. It enters the stomach, cleans the gut and out it goes!

I also brought up about being bitten by ticks back in November when we went on a vacation. The bites were still flaring up 5 months later! And they flared up pretty badly whenever I had chicken eggs or prawns. I could have chicken eggs and prawns prior to these bites. Dr. Yadav explained that shellfish and ticks have a similar chemical compound. So that could be causing the flare ups whenever I had prawns. Chicken eggs are high in histamines. So he took some blood for some tests.

We went to purchase Nystatin after seeing Dr. Yadav.

It is supposed to be taken three times a day; 5ml each time. I remember about 10 years back ago, a doctor at the ER in a hospital adviced me that whatever medicine I took, I should take a small amount and wait to see if I had any allergy reaction to it. And if I didn't, then I would take a little more the next round and waited.

So I took 2ml of Nystatin in the evening and waited. And I was fine. I took 5ml the next day in the evening and continued with one dose only. By the third day, all the bloated feeling and gassiness were gone. I could eat food that were on the high side of the FODMAP diet with no issues. I continued Nystatin for two weeks.

The Candida problem was finally solved!

But the nagging pain in the stomach didn't go away....

(...to be continued)

1000 Kilometres and Candida

We went down to Johor and Singapore for a holiday in March.

Hubby insisted that we drive back up during one of the days to Tangkak to see a kinesiologist who was 1 hour and 40 minutes away from where we were staying at. And we had to travel back to where we were staying and that was another 1 hour and 40 minutes!

I found out about this doctor from one of my blog's readers who is a Malaysian. She was very sensitive to chemicals and smells at one point of time. And many food made her ill. She saw many doctors but found that this man helped her. 

Since we were in Johor, hubby said we SHALL see him. And we did.

The doctor's name is Wong Meng Kiang. He is a kinesiologist who specialises in allergy. His clinic is quite old and rundown. But it was full of people! 

His room was full of test tubes! They contain all sorts of allergens. There was even one labelled "Salicylate"!

He will first ask you for a brief history of your health and condition. He will then give you a 'test tube' with an allergen which he suspects that you're allergic to. You are to hold it in your left hand. He will then lift your right arm to a 90 degrees position and if you're allergic to the allergen in the tube that is in your left hand, your right arm will have no power to fight him as he pushes it down.

*According to the dictionary, kinesiology is the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.

(*taken from HERE)

Click on LINK to read more about applied kinesiology where allergies are concerned.

Joel saw him first and he concluded he was allergic to mint (which was in his toothpaste), eggs and also dust mites.

Then came my turn. When I told him I have had anaphylaxis episodes and was also salicylate sensitive and what I have achieved today after 8 years, he said this:

"WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?!"

I told him to ask my husband. I never wanted to see him. My husband was the one who insisted on us seeing him.

He then continued, "Anaphylaxis is already at the worst state. There is no cure once you reach that stage. You can never be fully healed. But we can help you to achieve he stage where you won't reach anaphylaxis but achieve the just-break-out-in-hives-stage."

After diagnosing the three of us, he then brought us to a room to the back where he had a machine where he mixed a concoction specially for his patients based on their allergies/condition.

He uses saline water which he fills into the white bottle which is on the right section of the machine.

He then places the test tubes with the allergen that one is 'allergic' to. A 'homeopathic' movement (he said that there was a magnet inside the machine) is used to 'transfer' the 'energy' of the allergens to the white bottle. Thus, a dump-down level of the allergen is transferred to the white bottle. As one drips the solution everyday and also avoid whatever allergen that one is allergic to, one can be healed!

He said that many times blood tests are not accurate. Thus, this method of kinesiology is used to treat people with allergen. His wife and kids were healed of allergies with this method. And they are healed up till today.

I am sorry to say that I was a sceptic before I went, and I am still am a sceptic today. I have read up and watched YouTube videos about kinesiology allergy and yet my mind and heart cannot accept it. The science somehow do not add up to me. My mind somehow couldn't click to this theory.

BUT!

He diagnosed something in me which I had never thought of at all! Of course no doctors thought of at all too.

He said my IBS is caused by CANDIDA!!!!

But I have no fungal infection at all! Zilch.

But a light bulb went off in my head and that made the wheels in my head turn and it got me VERY excited. I started researching about it immediately that very day.

For you who would like to try this option, below are his clinic address and contact number:

Klink Specialist Wong,

114, Jalan Payamas,

Tangkak,

Johor. 

Phone number:

+606-978-1576

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