Yeast Infection or Candida Diet
When you have a yeast infection, it's not just medicines which help you get well soon. Even your diet is really important. If you are surprised, you probably do not know that the yeast Candida Albicans thrives on certain types of food. This yeast is naturally present in your body, but the problem arises when there is an overgrowth. And your diet can go a long way in ensuring that even if you have yeast infection in various parts of your body, you get rid of it quickly.
The idea of having a Candida diet is not to have foods that actually help the yeast organism thrive. If your diet is starving the organism and you take care of personal hygiene along with the proper medication, yeast infection or Candidiasis can be a a thing of the past.
Foods you should not have
Here are the food items which must be chalked off your diet as soon as you start suffering from yeast infection:
- Sweet food of all types, even processed items such as fruit juices. Breakfast cereals containing artificial sweeteners should also be avoided.
- Food which contains large amounts of flour, such as pasta, noodles etc.
- Various baked items such as pastries, and different types of breads.
- Legumes such as beans, peas and bean sprouts contain sugar in large amounts and so, should be avoided.
- Fruits should be avoided as far as possible because all fruits contain sugar in the form of fructose. Once you get rid of severe infection, having low sugar fruits such as apples etc is still okay.
- Beetroot, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, nuts and seeds should also be avoided.
So what should have if you avoid so many items?
Foods you can have
While not having the above-mentioned items will help maintain the pH levels in your body, thereby leading to quicker recovery, the following items can provide you with nutrition and keep you healthy when you are affected by yeast infections.
- Whole wheat items, whether baked or prepared otherwise. Corn hips, unsweetened rice cakes or crackers and whole wheat tortillas.
- Chickpeas and garbanzo beans, lentils, soy beans and flakes.
- Plain yogurt with live cultures (lactobacillus acidophilus) and soymilk (if unsweetened).
- Vegetables such as beans, Brussels sprouts, celery, radish, spinach and broccoli.
- Fruits such as fresh lemon, occasionally.
- Cashews, hazel and Brazil nuts and pumpkin and sesame seeds.
- Fresh garlic, onion, herbs, ginger etc in cooking. Even apple cider vinegar of the organic variety is okay.
- Chicken, eggs, turkey, duck, quail, goat, goose etc can be a source of protein.
Surely, you can understand that the idea here is to have diet which is rich in fiber and proteins along with complex carbs. This helps in promoting healthy Candida in the body and prevention of infection. Also this diet helps in counterbalancing the effects of low levels of digestive protein which is common in times of yeast infection.
So, follow these diet tips and say goodbye to yeast infections!
