who else has had or has Candida > Yeast infection in small intestine after having colon removed. How do you clear it up. I had it early last year and and they treated with antibiotics which only temporary fixed it. It is back and bad as can be, causing compulsive coughing . Its not the acid reflux as I changed my medicine to protonix and zantac. Please help what can be done
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SIFO doesn’t generally cause coughing, as far as I can tell. My chronic cough turned out to be difficult-to-diagnose asthma (I needed a test called a methacholine challenge). The treatment of SIFO (if you have it) would be prescription anti fungal therapy and/or discontinuation of the acid blockers (they seem to be implicated in SIFO). Most antibiotics don’t generally treat fungi, and might make it worse. The antifungal treatment hasn’t been studied very well, I think.
I wonder if diflucan would help. I used to take it for stubborn vaginal yeast infections and I took a shit ton of it when I had a yeast infection throughout my entire alimentary canal when I was in the midst of the "take-down". It seemed to work. I haven't had this medication for almost 20 years but sometimes I think of it because I still have bouts of yeastiness. I suspect I have a bit of systemic yeast.
Thanks for the replies, Good info.