Can candida being killed in the gut,... 
jwardmagic
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I am a 27 year old male. I was diagnosed with spondylitis when 13 and ulcerative colitis aged 17. My colitis has been in remission for about 3 years now but it comes now and again, and I have chronic brain fog type symptoms etc.
I did a lot of research into possible links of candida and autoimmune problems. To test this I took nystatin for about a week, to see if I experienced any die off symptoms etc. Nystatin is a prescription anti fungal.
I did notice some die-off symptoms, and developed a bit of a flu for a few days. More alarmingly however, about a month later (I only took the nystatin for a few days) I developed alopecia barbae (alopecia of my beard). I notice a few bald spots in my stubble which slowly got larger, and now I have about two, two inched size ones. Granted you can't see them easily when I've shaved they are still annoying and worrisome, I'd not like them to spread to my head (in 2% of cases they do apparently).
I'm not sure if this was caused by the nystatin, but alopecia barbae is an autoimmune condition. Both colitis and spondylitis, my previous diagnosis' were autoimmune.
I'm wondering whether candida are capable of entering the blood and finding other points to survive if under attack in the gut? I notice also that I get athletes foot whenever I take anti fungal supplements - almost as if fungus from my gut is escaping (through damaged gut lining - common in autoimmune conditions) and finding another location?
In the case of the alopecia, I'm wondering whether it escaped and attached (for some reason) to the hair follicules near my face?
I know that fungal ringworm can cause alopecia barbae, so I'm wondering if candida can do the same, and if the theory I have is plausible.
If it is plausible, I'm wondering whether taking a more 'systemic' anti fungal should help it!
However, I'm aware as well that taking nystatin may have impaired my liver slightly, and thus caused an increase of toxins which may have done it. However, I had a blood test a few weeks after taking it which showed my liver function to be fine.
I'm wondering what you guys think regarding this? Can candida 'travel' throughout like this? Has anyone else had experience like this when taking supplements or medications to kill fungus in the gut?
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- Re: Can candida being killed in the ... jaguar57
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This is a reply to # 2,306,593quotes from Dr. Simoncini
http://www.dragonfly75.com/eng/fungi.html
“When favourable conditions exist, it thrives on epithelium (a surface such as the inner surface of intestines); as soon as the tissue reaction is engaged, it massively transforms itself into a form that is less productive but impervious to attack -- the spore.
If then continuous sub-surface anti-fungal solutions take place coupled with a greater reactivity, in that very moment the spores go deeper into the lower connective tissue in a well defended impervious state.
In this way, Candida is free to expand to maturation in the soil, air, water, vegetation, etc., that is, wherever there is no antibody reaction.
In the epithelium, instead, it takes a mixed form, that is reduced to the sole spore component when it penetrates in the lower epithelial levels, where it tends to expand again.
Candida has been studied only in a pathogenic context, that is, only in relation to the epithelial tissues. In reality Candida possesses an aggressive ability that is diversified in response to the target tissue. It is just in the connective or in the connective environment, in fact, and not in the differentiated tissues, that Candida may find conditions favourable to an unlimited expansion. This emerges if we stop and reflect for a moment on the main function of connective tissue, which is to convey and supply nourishing substances to the cells of the whole organism. This is to be considered as an environment external to the more differentiated cells such as nervous, muscular, etc. It is in this context, in fact, that the competition for food takes place. On one hand we have the organism's cellular elements trying to defeat all forms of invasion; on the other hand, we have fungal cells trying to absorb ever-growing quantities of nourishing substances.
Candida goes deeper into the sub-epithelial levels from which it can be carried to the whole organism through the blood and lymph (intimate mycosis). Stages one and two are the most studied and known, while stage three, though it has been described in its morphological diversity, is reduced to a silent form of saprophytism (obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material).”
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