ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS SYMPTOMS OF CANDIDIASIS: A SWEET TOOTH
One of the most curious symptoms of candidiasis is a craving for sugary foods or for foods containing yeast. According to Dr George F. Kroker, an allergist working in Wisconsin: ‘Carbohydrate and/or yeast craving is such a characteristic finding in this disorder that one should seriously doubt the diagnosis of this illness if it is not present.
A craving for sugar is undoubtedly more common, so we will deal with this first. Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloatfng within a few hours, one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar. Presumably there is some positive response to sugar before the bloating sets in, but what might this be? The most likely answer is that the Candida lowers the blood sugar, by constantly using up the sugar supplied in food, producing a type of hypoglycaemia. Eating a lot of sugary food would relieve this, if only temporarily.
The reported craving for yeasty foods is far more difficult to understand, since Candida does not feed on other yeasts as it does on sugar.
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