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Symptoms of Intestinal Fungus... What to Avoid Besides Sugar

Dr. Hüseyin Nazlıkul 05.03.2023 5 min read

It's possible for individuals to test for Candida themselves with a simple test:

A consistently white-coated tongue can be a strong indicator of a Candida infection.

Candida patients often see a nearly snow-white, thin, and somewhat mucous-like coating on their tongue after waking up in the morning.

You can find out whether you have Candida with a simple morning saliva test.

How to Perform the Test: Fill a glass with fresh tap water and spit some of your first saliva of the morning into the glass. The saliva should float to the surface. After a few minutes to an hour, if there are strands sinking downward in thread-like form, add a sugar cube or an equivalent amount of granulated sugar to the water. You'll see the fungus multiply tremendously.

This is the same way the fungus behaves in the intestines, and it can result in Candida invading your gut and creating holes in the intestinal wall, which can be a fatal outcome. Candida multiplies rapidly with refined carbohydrates, refined sugar and alcohol.

However, the test is not scientifically accurate and has many sources of error. This test alone can only determine whether you have Candida with about 60% accuracy. If a medication has been used and was taken the day before, its effect may be absent or delayed. If the body was even slightly dehydrated, this can also produce an inaccurate result.

The Self-Administered Saliva Test

Industrial sugar and flour consumption supports the development of Candida, an extremely bothersome fungus, because it is a very stubborn fungus that often settles in the throat and intestines.

A thicker white-yellow coating that appears over most of the surface of the tongue in the morning is suspicious. If this persists throughout the day, it can be seen as an almost certain sign that something is wrong.

With an easy-to-perform saliva test, you can relatively reliably determine whether your organism is under excessive stress and therefore possibly exposed to Candida Albicans. If the saliva test is positive, you must change your diet as soon as possible!

The yeast fungus we know as Candida Albicans is more common than you might think!

Antibiotics kill the symbiotic gut bacteria that are important for defense against fungal infections, along with bacteria that are harmful to us. Even conventional medicine doctors are now starting to prescribe gut flora agents in addition to antibiotics. However, a much more problematic and much less known fact is that most cheese, meat and many other foods contain antibiotics that constantly disrupt the gut flora. Fungus is the primary beneficiary in this situation, and this fact explains why more and more people are affected by fungal infections, particularly Candida Albicans.

Budding fungi can also be detected in the microbial oral flora of about 70% of all healthy individuals, and almost regularly in those who wear dentures, with Candida Albicans being the most common fungus found in these cases as well. A positive finding in the mouth doesn't necessarily indicate a disease state, because our natural oral flora contains many different microbes. The amount of microbes makes the difference.

That said, if the ecosystem of the oral flora is imbalanced, this altered environment can, for example, cause fungi to multiply, and these can then take over, leading to oral thrush. Fungi are part of many foods that are a primary source of infection.

Factors That Lead to the Proliferation of Intestinal Fungus:

Frequent antibiotic use
Long-term use of birth control pills
Accumulation of heavy metals and toxic substances in the body (smoking, spending long periods in a smoky environment; polluted air also increases heavy metal accumulation in the body)
Drinking chlorinated water, using anti-inflammatory medication such as cortisone
Frequently consuming refined carbohydrates and sugary foods
Excessive alcohol consumption

One reason for saliva being mucous and sticky can be that the mouth is very dry in the morning. This is also caused by dehydration, which makes saliva thicker, more mucous, and stringier.

Allergies, environmental toxins and cold water can also cause saliva to thicken.

Other causes can include bacterial or viral infection, mold, or parasitic infestation.

Clear Evidence of Candida

There are several ways to do this through a medical laboratory:

Antibody test: A saliva sample can be tested for antibodies in the laboratory.
Vegatest or HRV – analysis with Reviquant
SFF stool analysis
Candida test using blood or stool samples: For this purpose, fungal cultures are created to determine whether a fungal infection is present.
In the case of vaginal fungus, a smear should be taken for examination under a microscope. In addition, particularly in recurrent vaginal fungal infections, fungal cultures can also be created here to detect resistant pathogenic fungi.

At-Home Candida Test

You can also test yourself at home to find out whether your vaginal infection is a vaginal fungal infection. For this, you can get an over-the-counter Candida test from the pharmacy or order one online.