Are you having to follow a grain-free diet? Has anyone else tried a gluten free/wheat free diet to see how it helps with their symptoms?

I am using a grain free, gluten free, all forms of suger free.

Examples: milk has latose and lactose is milk sugar. Anything that ends in OSE is sugar.
NO pork.

Basically, my diet is green veggies, any type of fish or meats except no pork.

I use spelt or kamut bread, Raw almond butter and Eden apple butter. I think the apple butter is the only thing that has a little sugar in it.

Oats are not allowed either.
Kamut rice is okay too.
Soy is okay.
I'll have to get out my diet plan and be more clear later.

The bloating in my face and belly has gone WAY DOWN.
Head aches are going away.
Swelling and the need for lasix is almost gone.
Torn up skin and severe dryness is gone.

I no longer need Salagen.
I am producing my own eye fluid, saliva.

I have not tried to go without the prem cream. I think I may still need that just due to menopause and age.
I may try to deal with this in a natural way too.

If you want more data, do a post and I'll respond.

Oh my depression and rages are mostly gone too.

I have been trying a grain-free diet for a little while and it has really helped my eyes, but my joints are still achy. I'm eating mostly fruits, veggies and nuts, and have gone vegan except for the piece of chicken or egg white scramble. I have a thyroid disorder, too...so I have to watch the iodine. Whew! This diet is tough, but its good to know that someone else is having some luck with it, too! Think I'll try to stick with it and see how it goes.

This is a lot of the diet I am following.
Xylitol is the best sugar substitue because it has proven antifungal and inhibits candida yeast. Stevia and Stevia Plus can be used as a sugar substitute.

The yeast infection diet calls for NO fruits and fruit juices due to natural sugar content.

YESGreen apples (Granny Smith), avocadoes, grapefruit, lemons and limes can be used.

NO breaded meats and no pork: All others are fine.
NO egg substitutes, eggs are fine
NO margarine or butter substitutes
YES Yogart (especially made from goats or organic) are fine.
YES cream cheese, sour creame made from real cream, unsweetened whipping cream and butter

NO potatoes and legumes, beans and peas

No Coffee, tea (reg or decafe)
NO diet or reg soda
No grains, pasta, rice, wheat, corne, millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, oats, barley.

NO yeast including bread, mushroom, pastries, alcohol, hydrolyzed yeast (read your labels)
No Pickles, salad dressings, green olives or soy sauce

Yes Salad dressings made of olive oil, apple cider viegar, water and lemon juice

NO partially hydrogenated oils including corn and peanuts and pistachio nuts

YES Raw nuts including pecans, almonds, walnuts, cashews and pumpkin seeds

NO vinegars: These include ketchup, mustard, bbq sauce, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, pickles, pickled peppers, hot sauce, salad dressings, green olives, horseradish, dips, mayonaise

YES Braggs apple cider vinegar is okay because it contains malic acid and is a known yeast infection fighter.

Avoid tuna, swordfish, shark and shellfish due to high mercury contents.
YES other fish, meats other than pork

GOOD candida diet and good vegetables

RAW green veggies are best because they absorb the yeast.
Alfalfa sprouts, bell peppers, brussel sprouts, all cabbages, broccoli, celery, dandelion greens, eggplant, fennel, garlic, kelp, all lettuces, onion, pumkin seeds, kale, spinach,

YES Raw Almond butter
Braggs Liquid Aminos

Spelt or Kamut bread

I was very swollen and bloated till I was doing this diet.

I am aslo using (CandiGone). This has a tincture and capsules. I am also using IntestiNew along with Swansons Ultimate Probiotic.

The probiotics cannot be used for 4 hours after the (CandiGone) because it will kill good and bad flora so it will waste your money. After 4 hours then use the probiotic so you get good flora.

I've dropped a lot of weight and inches so fast it's unreal. I was super infected and had severe diareah, headaches, rages, exhaustion and so on.

Since I've started this 1.5 weeks past, I've been able to go off many of my meds.

I am only using one asthma med over 5 to 7 meds.
I no longer need salagen.

I've dropped most of my meds and no problem.

So it appears that this candida infection is the biggest culpret.

My skin isn't even dry now.
My skin is healing for the first time in over 7 years.

I hope this helps you and I hope others that have a lot of thrush try this.

Hey, ya never know if it's really something different causing these problem.

I know my last post was very long and not easy to read.

In short the diet I am doing for candida differs somewhat & less complimcated.

Green veggies
Granny Smith apples
fish yet no shell fish
Braggs liquid Amino for flavoring

splet and/or kamut bread
Raw Almond butter
Eden's Apple Butter spread
PLAIN yogart...I add flavored powered such as pumpkin, cinomin, clover, nutmeg and Xylitol for sweetness.

Sometimes, I've used avacado mashed into lettuce with either fish or a raw almond butter and a slice of splet or kamut.

Sometimes I use 2 to 4 baby red potatoes.

For an entire meal, I've used 3 baby red potatoes diced and steamed.
1 zuccini diced and steamed.
1 talopia fish steamed with Braggs liquid amino
Then I mix the veggies and put them around the fish to get some of the Braggs seasoning.

The above is a pleasant meal.

This is extremely limiting.

I went to a natural food store that has a nutritionist working there.
She helped me a lot.

I have a couple of soup recipes, and am wondering if you could eat this one? It involves boiling the veggies, though...

1 head cauliflower
2 carrots
1 yellow onion (baseball sized)
5 or 6 spinach leaves
black pepper and kosher salt to taste

You just roughly cut the veggies, and put them in a good soup pot and then cover the veggies with water. Boil them until soft, and then put the veggies in a blender and blend until smooth...reserve the liquid from the pot and add to the blender to make the consistency you want. It usually makes about 8 cups of soup. I don't normally add salt, and only add pepper, and sometimes coriander. would that be okay?

Hi IH8graves,
I like the sound of your recipie.
I know carrots are controverced so I won't use them till it's said to be okay.

What do you think I could sub the carrots and colliflower with to be on the safe side.

It crossed my mind to use celerly and some other green veggie.

Please tell me more of your ideas.

I think celery would work fine! (And this might be good mixed with some broccoli...) I haven't played with the recipe very much. The carrots add a little sweetness and gives the soup an over all orange color, but I'm thinking you could add whatever you like and it should be tasty. The spinach gives it some depth, but if I add more than 5 or 6 hand sized leaves it spoils this soup somehow. (If you don't add the spinach, it doesn't have the same depth of flavor.) Weird!
I hope you enjoy it!
Love,
Heather

I think Broccoli could easily be substituted for the cauliflower in this recipe. So, I think I would try Broccoli, spinach and onion.

Hi Heather,
You are a wonderful help to me and this is the reason.

I only learned to cook a few years ago.
Now, I must learn to cook an ANTI-CANDIDA style. Of course, I'm lost again.

I never married or had children. I wanted both but never experience either. So, I never learned to cook. Then I started caring for some sick people and someone had to cook and freeze food for me because my cooking was so pathetic. It took a very long time to learn. Then I finally came to love cooking and became a very good cook. I say this because others loved my cooking.

Glitch!
Now what to do.
A friend who is now deceased taught me to cook.

Now I need you and anyone who will help me learn to cook this new way so it will be tasty and I will not fail in getting well.

Thank you for your ideas.
I have copied and pasted them on my computer so I will not lose the recipe ideas.

Please keep helping me.

Noble

No problem! I really hope you enjoy this soup! Its a perfect recipe to start out with, and is great for busy people. Its just veggies, water, heat and a blender. :) You just cook the veggies until you can easily stick a knife or fork through them, and then blend them in a blender until they're unrecognizable. It makes a lot of soup, and the cauliflower version freezes well. I always seem to eat it up though, so it never makes it to the freezer very often. Its nice to take for lunches at work.

Can you eat mangoes? I have a killer Mango salsa recipe that is awesome with fish. I'll give it to here, just in case:

Two mangoes (very ripe and juicy!)
Red cabbage 1/4 cup
5 green onions
1 small red bell pepper
Cilantro to taste

roughly chop the veggies in a blender or food processor. Add the mango (diced) and blend until mixed well through, but try not to over blend or you get goo.

I also have a recipe for a cool cucumber dill dip that is great with fish:

1 small cucumber (peel and remove the seeds)
3 green onions
1 tbl or to taste fresh baby dill
Either yogurt or sour cream

Cut the cucumber into small dices. Dice the green onions. For the baby dill, remove the fragile ends from the hard stocks using your fingers...you just pull them off the stocks. Cut the baby dill very fine, until you have about a table spoon. Add the cucumber, green onion and baby dill to the plain yogurt or sour cream. Allow to chill before serving for best flavor. Tastes even better the next day, and goes perfect with salmon!

For the cool cucumber dip...I think sour cream is better than plain yogurt. Give it a try! Its sooooo good with salmon and any other hot fish dish that you have.
My family hated fish (my brothers and sisters and mom) but I got them to love salmon by poaching it with lemon slices (so the house didn't stink) and giving them the cucumber dip along with it. They ate it all up and asked for seconds.
The mango salsa is really good with tilapia and snapper. If you can't have the mango, just the combo of veggies and cabbage might be nice on the fish. I used to make fish tacos with corn tortillas, but you could probably use a good flavorful lettuce instead of a tortilla, and make a fish taco using the mango salsa minus the mango?

OH DARN, DARN!
I am antiphalactic allergic to cucumbers.
I've never heard of anyone else with this issue.
The Candida diet doesn't allow any fruit.
I love mango and made tea, hot cereal and stuff like that with it. Now, I can't have it.

I don't know if this will change in the futer but for now, there is no fruit for the fruit lover.

Heather, you have fabulous cooking skills and ideas.

I'm so sorry that you're allergic...you know...I was just thinking that a more sour green apple might make a good cucumber substitution in the dip. The apple might oxidize, but I don't think it will effect the flavor too much, do you? That actually sounds like it might be good...sour apple, green onion and baby dill.