SHORT SUMMARY
Candida Albicans is a yeast microorganism, a type of unicellular fungus, that is similar to plants but has no chloroplasts to convert solar energy into sugar. Fungi must consume outside material (like sugar) for energy. Candida is typically found in small amounts throughout the body, in your mouth, skin and within the intestines.
INNER ECOLOGY
Candida Albicans share space in your bowel with a variety of other microorganisms, mostly helpful bacteria called probiotics. Together they comprise your inner ecology often called the microbiome. In a normal digestive tract inner ecology, everything lives in a friendly ecological balance with a bacteria-to-fungus ratio of 10:1. .
OVERGROWTH
This 10:1 ratio keeps everything balanced until a disruption occurs due to several factors such as stress, a poor diet, a weakened immune system or an uncontrolled medical condition such as an antibiotic. When something disrupts this balance, a Candidiasis (yeast overgrowth) infection may occur. The bowel then may become vulnerable to other opportunistic microorganisms seeking a new home. With low healthy probiotics to keep it under control, the growth of yeast takes off, multiplies and causes a yeast infection resulting in a multitude of symptoms.
SYMPTOMS
An overgrowth of Candida Albicans often begins in the digestive system and gradually spreads to other parts of the body primarily to causing symptoms like:
- Itch in dark moist areas like underarms, ears or toes
- Itch is open areas like skin surface and cause a red itchy rash
- Digestive troubles like gas, bloating, food cravings, constipation or diarrhea
- Vaginal Yeast Infection: frequently found in those who are pregnant, use birth control pills, take hormones, or have taken antibiotics recently.
- mouth thrush (common with infants, children, and older adults, who wear dentures and those with a weakened immune system);
- Invasive Candidiasis: most common in hospitalized individuals with a weakened immune system, catheter users and surgery recipients.
