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Most of us don't have "low immune systems." IBD is, if anything, an overactive immune system. I'm also not at all sure that most of what gets called "systemic yeast overgrowth" is real. Rosie, how did you get this diagnosis?

Never has been an issue for me. I am also leary of this diagnosis. While fungal gut infections do occur, it is not very common. If you've been on a lot of antibiotics, it is more likely. The notion of systemic yeast infection is sort of a fad thing. 

Jan

I think you mean "systemic yeast infection", but in any event, I am aware of a case where a pulmonary fungal infection was contracted by a person who was exposed to breathing mold spores in the aftermath of water damage in a condominium.  You don't need to be immunosuppressed to get one of these.  All you need to do is be exposed to and breathe mold spores.  But it's rare in any person.

The people who are most at risk among those of us on the board are those taking immuno suppressant drugs and antibiotics, or some combination.  Women and men have different issues in terms of exposure.  On a man's body, the area of most concern is actually the skin of the groin and scrotum (jock itch) and legpits.  In my case, the lepgpits is where it always starts, I douse the area with Zeabsorb AF powder and keep it dry and it goes away.

I have had the issues crop up when combining antibotics with an immunosuppressant (first Entocort, then Remicade).

I have never had a systemic yeast infection and was told it's unlikely.

You haven't mentioned what you are taking that precipitates this concern.