Has anybody tried using Mastic Gum pills for treatment against Candida? I know it works very well for eradication of Helicobacter but i was wondering if anybody tried it in treating Candida and whether it worked for them.

I am very interest in doing this, seeing that I don’t believe in ‘pills’ Please only natural cures and 10 points for best answer.

I have very stubborn ringworm. It’s large spots on the left side of both of my legs and a spot on my arm. The one on my arm is almost gone, thanks to the meds. The two conjoined ones on my left leg are bigger but the one on my right leg appears to be the most resistant.

I was on over-the counter lotion for 5 weeks. It did nothing. My doctor put me on 2 % ketoconazole cream and oral terbinafine pills. I’m pretty sure it’s working- as in making me not contagious and killing the fungus, but the red spots aren’t going away which is my biggest concern. I can scratch and touch my ringworm all I want, lay in my bed repeatedly without changing the sheets everyday, etc. and it doesn’t grow or spread to anywhere else on my body (I’m convinced that I’m quarantined) but I just want the spots to go away because they’re ugly and I want to wear shorts again.

I’ve been using the clear nail polish trick since yesterday and it appears to be helping a little (lighter spots in the red masses) but I was wondering what else will work. I don’t want to use bleach because I scar easily and my right leg has a scratch through the ringworm, I dont want the bleach getting into my blood. Will calamine lotion help to dry it out faster than nail polish, in combo with the prescription lotion, oral pills and nail polish? Other household solutions?

This started in January. We took in our fawn color Pug because she had a small round black spot on top of her paw and a semi-circular black spot on her hind leg - she also had a red crusty splotch on the inside of the same hind leg about the size of a half dollar. Vet took hairs for ringworm test and said to bathe her in Malaseb Shampoo twice a week and use Clotrimazole 1%. Didn’t help and Vet couldn’t say for sure it was or wasn’t ringworm - sample didn’t turn but grew fungus? Vet gave us Clavamox 62.5 mg twice a day plus continue with the other stuff. Still hasn’t cleared up - Vet is now prescribing Ketoconazole 200 mg Tabs 1/2 tab a day and Miconazole NIT cream 2% instead of the Clotrimazole 1% cream. But we still bathe her and give her the rest of the Clavamox pills until they’re gone. Does it sound like ringworm? or something else? How long will it take ringworm to clear up? It hasn’t gotten any better or worse. It’s still the same as it was when we started.
FUZZY-WUZZY WUZA NEWF - I’m sorry, but what can I ask? They told me they thought it was ringworm and pulled some hairs. I called them three times while waiting on the diagnoses and all they could say was it never turned but developed fungus. They put her on some other treatment and still said they thought it was ringworm and to try this new course of treatment. I called again and they still say they think it’s ringworm and to try this new course of treatment and then bring her back in after 4 weeks. What else should I ask the vet? I keep calling and they keep telling me they think it’s ringworm but it never turned.

Thank you for the info on that new pill - I’ll wait on that and just do the 4x a day anti-fungal cream with the 3x a week bath. I didn’t know all the side effects that pill had. Thank you for alerting me - I looked it up on-line. Thank you for the suggestion … I am going to wait on the pill and do the 4x a day anti-fungal with the 3x a week bath. Hopefully, it will clear up.
CAT S and shauna - Thank you … I had no idea ringworm took so long to clear up. I guess I thought it should be gone by now. I’ve been watching our little male Pug and so far, he’s ok … but he has been getting the same bath she does. He gets his bath just before she gets hers. The vet made that suggestion since they’re always together.

It’s embarrassing as hell but I have a reoccurring yeast infection that will not turn loose of me. My doc prescribed some pills that do nothing for me. I am in the process of searching for a new quack to give me more worthless treatment, but in the mean time does anybody know of a home remedy that could give me some relief?

I have a spot of tinea versicolor on my back. (It’s a fungal infection that causes the spot of skin to lose its pigmentation). I have tried treating it with selenium sulfide dandruff shampoo, but that didn’t seem to have any effect on it. My doctor prescribed Nizoral (ketoconazole) pills to try to treat it orally — however, the Nizoral has a lot of possible side effects, and you have to sweat when you take it in order to get the medicine to your skin. So I’m a little worried about starting the Nizoral treatment. However, I want to get rid of this before I get my summer tan, because tanning makes it really show up (since that patch of skin doesn’t tan).

Has anyone had this? Did you cure it? How did you cure it? If you took Nizoral, did you have any side effects, and did it work? Thanks!

possible?

If you have experienced yeast / candida infections in other parts of your body can you please tell me what you did to eliminate it. A natural diet I assume.
Where in my question did I say doctors are wrong?

evirusthelaye: Just to let you know, If you are the only one that answers I would rather delete my question then have you chosen as best answer.
WHY DO YOU ASSUME IT HAPPENED TO ME AND I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH THIS FROM A NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR??

Here is the TRUTH since you like to go on assumptions. I at least ASK questions as part of the way I SEEK the to find the truth. a woman I know who was hiking / camping all over Australia, Hawaii and New Zealand came home to have her doctor give her this diagnosis- she did not define if he was a naturopath or a regular doctor. He gave her some pills or meds to take - I did not see them - and she told me about it. She said "did you know you can get a yeast infection throughout your body?" I said NO I did not know. Then I went to try and find info about it on the web. I could only find advertising info to buy products and ONE that was NOT selling anything. Seemed he was genuinely trying to help people and he gave them ways on how to "cure" it themselves by modification of diet and acidolpholis / bifidus.
Your answers are based on assumptions. And I am the "idiot" questioner??? You can email me if you want to continue this since this is not a chat format.
This I do KNOW yeast needs sugar to "grow"

use your assumptions on THAT!
Every industry INCLUDING medical / pharmaceutical are a money making industry and they need your money to continue and it has grown to a money making scheme - hence the insurance industry is booming. I know the HEALTH industry is a money making scheme also. However, there is truth in some of those industries also.

God gave us this earth and in it can provide for our life and also for cures. Not in a bottle, not in a scheme. Those that are greedy and selfish try to find ways to make you pay for it.

YES, diet does matter. You have been INSTRUCTED about what you should eat and what you should not for optimal health. If HE has given you life here HE has provided for your life HERE.

my dermatologist gave me:

ketoconazole shampoo (for my body)
ketoconazole pills (i take twice a day)
minocycline pills (i take once a day)
Benzaclin gel (i use on my face in the morning)
Tazorac cream 0.05% (i use on my face before i go to bed)

i have been useing all of that for 3 days now while i have not seen any results yet ( which i expected ) how long you think it will take for me to have clear skin?

my face is not riddled with acne but i do have acne,white heads,black heads,acne scars and body acne

So, i’m a teenager with a leapord lookin body =/…its called tinea versicolor….nothings worked, i tried everything….selsun blue, ketoconazole shampoo 2%, selenium silfide shampoo2.5%, i tried some pills which took it off for two weeks, but soon returned….ehhhhh idk what to do now. help?

thnx

I have been taking Ketoconazole (sp?) for a few weeks now because I recently visited my doctor and was told I have ringworm.

At first I started with the Ketoconazole cream, which did not work for me and only made the ringworm spread. After realizing this, I made another trip back to my doctor and they prescribed me the Ketoconazole pill, which slowly but surely has been working. Thankfully the ringworm stopped spreading and is healing after taking this medication on a daily basis.

My problem is — I’m going on vacation for 2 weeks in three days, and I’ve got about 4 or 5 of these pills left. I called in today to ask if the doctor could give me a refill so I could continue taking the meds because the ringworm certainly isn’t gone yet and I was told to continue taking it even about a week after it has disappeared. The doctor requested that I come back AFTER vacation to get a refill. She only said this because according to her, Ketoconazole is very bad for a person’s liver.

So I’m wondering: Is it really going to be better if I do this? I’ve taken some time to think about it and it really makes no sense.

I know if I stop taking this stuff, the ringworm is going to start spreading again. It’s only going to become a bigger problem and most likely after getting back I will have to take even more of this stuff that I would if I continued taking it during my vacation because it’s going to spread and possibly get bigger in the spots it’s already on. Would that not be WORSE for my liver?

Instead of stopping the meds for 2 weeks, would it not be quicker and healthier if I continued taking them once on a daily basis as I have been?

I’ve been so self conscious about myself and my skin since this appeared and I really just want it gone. This whole thing sounds ridiculous to me and I really think the doctor should have done some consideration before telling me to come back after vacation.

I am planning on going in today and showing her that this stuff is not gone and that it would be best if I continued the meds. Any opinions or advice?