There are many reasons why one would want to follow a yeast free diet. One of the major reasons you would want to follow a yeast free diet would be a fungal infection known as Candida. This is a condition that causes rashes, mouth thrash, redness and soreness on genitals.
This is highly related to yeast and the root cause is generally related to your diet. However it can also be transmitted by another means such as through a sexual intercourse but there is a quick recovery following that. When it comes to diet, yeast actually feeds on sugar, so for that reason, if anyone is going through this type of infection they should visit their doctor and consider going on a yeast free diet.
Reason For A Yeast Free Diet
Doctors usually prescribe an anti-fungal medicine for recovery, which is very helpful, but another thing that you can do to help recover and completely eliminate the condition is a traditional 6 week yeast free diet. The primary things to remember when following a yeast free diet is to eliminate any source of added sugar. You will also need to limit any type of high carbohydrate foods.
How Candida/Yeast Infection Develops?
Candida is a microbe that already exists in your blood stream to help control your sugar levels. Whenever your sugar levels are high, the candida comes to break them down so that your sugar levels are maintained. If there is a sustained elevated level of sugar in your blood stream, then candida continues to bloom until it is in excess. This excess of candida causes your body to start showing symptoms on the surface, which commonly include:
- Redness
- Itchiness
- Milky/cheesy discharges
How The Yeast Free Diet Works?
In order to recover from a yeast infection, what you need to do is to minimize the amount of sugar in your blood stream. If you lower the amount of yeast, so the sugar levels will come in control. If sugar levels are controlled, then there will be little reason for Candida microbes to hang around in your body. These microbes have a lifespan of mere few hours, and as these yeast and carbohydrates levels will lower, so will the Candida. Plainly speaking, all you have to do is to ‘starve’ your Candida microbes so that the infections go away too.
Avoid eating:
- Fruit
- Fruit juices
- Starchy carbohydrates
- White potatoes
- White bread
- White rice
- Pastas
- Acidic foods (like vinegar)
The food that you should be eating should be:
- Lean meat
- Beans
- Non starchy vegetables
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Cucumber salad
When you are consuming vegetables, choose raw organic ones for consumption. If you feel this is a difficult task, just remind yourself that this is only going to stay for a couple of weeks until your yeast levels drop. Eventually you can continue with your normal diet, with just a little more precaution.
