Male and yeast infection in boys most common causes are antibiotics, alcohol, beer, sex, wheat products, corn products, peanuts, barley, and a weakened immune system. Other than the antibiotics, the rest contribute to candida overgrowth by weakening the immune system by killing good bacteria from the over acidity they produce in the intestine.

These common food products are universally contaminated with molds. We all unknowingly eat them thinking they are perfectly safe, but they are not in most cases since they are usually contaminated with molds and fungus. The powerful effect of molds in the body and modern medicine is best illustrated in the following paragraphs.

Take for instance Penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Dr. Fleming as he was running an experiment with mold from bread(wheat product). He took some of this mold and added it to his dish of live bacteria. What he noticed was that the mold completely cleared out the bacteria. The fungus killed the bacteria just as it does in your digestive system when you take antibiotics.

Think back how many times in your life you went to the doctor for a chest cold, or what ever it may have been, and you were prescribed an antibiotic. You took it, the cold cleared up and you thought everything was ok. What you didn’t know is the antibiotic killed your good bacteria, also. Not all of it, since we have in a normal healthy human digestive system about 70 trillion beneficial bacteria, but you killed some allowing the male yeast infection to spread throughout your body. You have a cold beer every now and then, you killed some more. Male yeast infection thrives on beer and helps it grow due to the yeast being used in its production. You eat food unknowingly that contains molds, you killed some more. You eat sugar-laden foods, which feed the infection allowing it to grow and spread. This goes on until the fungus takes a good hold in your digestive system and becomes systemic. Piercing the lining of the intestine and spreading throughout the body. There have been cases of yeast encasing people’s hearts and causing it to shut down.

For example, my 8 year old recently was ill, probably the flu, and what I did was simply let it take its course while I gave her natural supplements. I do not give my kids anything to knock down a fever. A fever is the immune system in action trying to defeat the disease naturally. If you give them aspirin or Tylenol, it will knock down the fever and let the disease take control, then they will be sick for a week or so. Anyway, she was well in two days on her own.

Give them Pedialyte to drink. Herbs and supplements can be given based on symptoms. Try to get them to eat, and let them rest. If it does drag on then a trip to the doctor may be needed, of course, but antibiotics are a last resort. I have to add, my 13 year old has never been sick for more than 3 days. And out of the 4 of us in my family she is the only one that doesn’t have a yeast infection in children based on the spit test. The rest of us have a yeast infection at one stage or another. Of course, I cured myself with the treatments listed on this website. I am also constantly treating my 18 year old daughter, since she never seems to listen until she is sick.

NOTE: Aspirin and other salicylate containing medicines have been linked to Reyes Syndrome. Tylenol and other acetaminophen medications damage the liver and death from overdose is common.

If you do give your child antibiotics, have the doctor prescribe Nystatin to be taken with the antibiotic. Nystatin is a prescription anti-fungal derived from a soil-based bacteria and yeast, believe it or not, and is completely safe since it does not enter the blood stream. Nystatin will keep the yeast fungi from over running the intestines, since you are killing the good bacteria as well as the bad with the antibiotic. After they finish taking it, please give them Total Immune Booster or CP-1 for treating yeast infection in children and to restore the good bacteria that the antibiotic killed so they do not get a yeast infection in children.

“Hi Linda, I’m 34 and had most of the symptoms you list that are the manifestation of candida yeast infection. Besides the constant redness, swelling and itching in my intimate parts, I used to be slightly overweight, and suffered from digestive problems (including leaky gut syndrome), blurred vision and fatigue. I also had constant cravings for sugary foods. I used to feel guilty and weak all the time. Who would have believed all those horrible symptoms were linked to candida yeast infection? I have been on your system for four weeks and not only did the itching and redness completely vanished, I became regular, lost some decent pounds and lost my cravings for sugar. The blurred vision and the inability to focus are gone! I feel so alive and in control for the first time in my life!!! I cannot say THANK YOU enough! Why don’t more doctors know about this method ?

I want to thank you again from the bottom of my heart and you can use this testimonial on your site if you like.”

– Dave Rasmussen, Age 34 (Melbourne, Australia)

“Hello Linda, I’m 45 and have battled with severe Yeast Infection for the last nine years. A month and a half ago, I stumbled across your Yeast Infection No More program. I had my doubts and didn’t think it was the right program for my Yeast Infection or if it was going to work at all, but I did order it because I’ll do anything to rid myself of this crippling condition.

Over 3 week period, I have seen an improvement that I had never experienced with any other conventional or so called natural treatment. The non-stop vaginal itching and burning have stopped. My skin looks significantly better and I slowly got rid of the psoriasis on my right elbow that I had for years.

I can now save the money that I would have wasted on drugs like Monistat and Diflucan. Your suggestions have kept my vaginal yeast infections as well as the other candida related symptoms at bay incredibly well!

Ialso lost about 15 lbs! I feeling so healthy, too.

Thank you and God bless!”
– Karen Siegler, Age 45 (Ramat Gan, Israel)

“Dear Linda, your Yeast Infection No More book has literally saved my life. After years of getting no help from the established “medical profession” and getting sicker and afflicted by pain mood swings and depression, I bought your book and in less than5 weeks my chronic muscle aches and joint pain, caused by my candida yeast infection, have disappeared, and I literally tossed away my cane that I have been using for years. I couldn’t believe it, it was nothing short of a miracle. I still can’t believe it. Now, months later, the depression has also vanished. I no longer cry with no reason and I feel happier and energized.

I am sure the protocols in your book have saved untold thousands of people like me from suffering and pain and “given us our lives back.” I will never understand why don’t doctors tell us or investigate more on the subject of candidiasis.

Two of my friends, one of them a naturopath had recommended that I try your program. And just like that, I was cured and liberated from years of misery.

I have recommended your book to numerous people and all have received a great deal of relief. If only I had been told about it sooner, it would have saved me years of pain and exhaustion. I really tried everything. After 2 months on your program, people say that I look10 years younger, and they are right!

Thank you very much for everything you have done for me!

God bless you!”
– Lorie Stalder, Age 51(London, UK)

“Dear Linda, About 2 years ago, I developed a severe case of vaginal yeast infection that would not let up. The itching, burning and swelling of my labia were simply unbearable. I have purchased several over-the-counter treatments, including Monistat cream to subside the symptoms. While it worked initially, eventually things wore off and left me with an even worse infection than before. The same goes for the antibiotics I took with the advice of my doctor. I felt horrible. After doing some research online, I guessed I had a yeast infection and purchased your program. The results were almost instantaneous. In less than 7 hours, I felt a tremendous relief. Two weeks later and I became completely free from the unbearable vaginal itching, burning, swelling and discharge. Using your methods, I have kept my chronic yeast infection at bay ever since. No more drugs or OTC’s for me.

Thank you so much, Linda!”

– Kristie Halverson, Age 19(Florida, USA)

When babies are born, they come into the world with a completely sterile digestive system. There are no bacteria present in their intestines and the immune system has not been activated. It is not until pass through the vaginal canal where vaginal fluids are swallowed, and they suckle at the breast of mom, that bacteria in the form of lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium are introduced as well as many others. These bacteria go to work in the digestive system setting up large colonies. Probiotic bacteria are beneficial and provide the body with a first line of defense against bad bacteria, pathogens, parasites, viruses, and microbes that can make the body sick. Colostrum, monosaccharides and every antigen the mother has are also introduced from mother’s milk which stimulate and builds the immune system.

Breast-feeding is absolutely the best thing you can do for your baby for the first year if at all possible. A strong and healthy immune system will keep your child healthy and off of the medicines that can cause yeast infection in children. However, if you are not getting the correct nutritional nutrients, you will not be able to pass them along to your child.

I did not get this benefit as a child. The result was pneumonia at 6 months old and hospitalization along with all the drugs. Forty years ago, breast-feeding was looked upon as something not necessary, and there was a huge push by the food industry for soy-based formulas for infants. (Soy is a hormone disrupter.) There are also more vitamins and minerals in dog food than baby formula. Don’t use it if at all possible.

It simply amazes me how something that was done for millions of years suddenly became sociably unacceptable and thought to be not needed.

From that point on, my life was one of pneumonia 7 times and bronchitis every single year until I was about 11 years of age. Antibiotics raged through my body every year, sometimes 3 to 6 times. By the time I was 10 or 11, I think it was 10, my digestive system was totally destroyed by what I believe to be a yeast infection in children. How do I know this? I got diarrhea, and had it for 1 month! I also would get ringworm, athlete’s feet often and had very bad smelling gas. Athletes feet and ringworm are a form of fungus, which is what yeast infections are.

Did the doctors ever figure out the cause? Nope. They did take me off all medications, and I had to eat a healthy diet. I truly believe that the fungus was starved enough that most of it died which allowed me to recover.

The cause of all this was a childhood life on antibiotics, which are made from fungi and are a known killer of bacteria, both good and bad. After that illness, I became pretty healthy and never had pneumonia again, I also amazingly lost my taste for sugar. Sugar and all its forms feed yeast. I remained fairly healthy until my late teenage years when I began to party and drink beer. More sugar and mold: beer is full of sugar and mold and will cause yeast infections as well as damage the immune system and liver. But this is a whole other story, which has no place in this report, but the yeast did come back.

Most men will go through life never knowing that they have a candida or fungal infection because it is extremely difficult to detect since men are built different than women. Women will get a vaginal infection and this is the clue that things are amiss in their body. Whereas men will have absolutely no idea they may have a male yeast infection until it creates other problems with their health.

Usually, men are informed by their significant other that she has a yeast infection, so the chances are he has it too. Most doctors will prescribe an anti-fungal and suggest that the man takes it also, other wise he will give it back to her.

This is very true and worse, I am afraid, especially if she has a vaginal infection. During sex, the males urethra is exposed and vulnerable to a male yeast infection from an infected female. The yeast can travel up the urethral canal and settle in the prostate gland.

Now you may not have problems for years but prostate cancer and prostate problems are affecting almost every male at some point in their life. Think about it, boys and young girls do not get reproductive yeast infections as near as often as adults, do they? Boys also do not have prostate problems or girls ever need a hysterectomy. This obviously shows me that sex is an additional cause of infections.

Yeast is used to raise bread in cooking. Isn’t it possible that it can swell a prostate gland?

Men who drink beer have been known to have skin yeast on their penis. They are usually totally unaware they have a male yeast infection due to the outside temperature of the skin being about 77 degrees keeping the infection dormant. But the vaginal canal, being a very inviting place for yeast to grow, can activate the infection in the woman. Before the female notices symptoms, she can give it right back to the male, and it can travel up the urethral canal settling in the prostate. It then literally becomes a ticking time bomb.

In some cases, male yeast infections will be noticeable as a penile yeast infection that has dry cracked skin although the infection can occur most anywhere on the skin. When the man has an erection, this skin can crack and be extremely painful.

Vaginal yeast infections in 2002 alone cost women over a half a billion dollars on over the counter medications for this extremely common infection.

Vaginal yeast infection affects women with poorly controlled diabetes, immune system dysfunction, or women with immuno deficiencies more than most, and they seem to be the most at risk for recurrent infections. Depressed immunity may occur as a result of nutritional deficiencies, medications, pregnancy, or serious illness. Scientists know that since 1960, immune function in adults has declined by 25%.

There is believed to be some kind of t-cell lymphocyte problem that allows colonization by the mycelial form of candida in the vagina. Once established it begins to reproduce the spore form of candida, which as the ability to split itself in two and multiply at an astounding rate, it can double every hour.

It has also been proven that the normal vaginal flora is greatly altered in women with vaginal candida yeast and that many times candida can live right along side acidophilus without any problems.

Many women also have been found to have low zinc plasma levels, which reduces immune function. In some women it has been found that there is a defect in a prostaglandin secretion by the patients macrophages which blocks the proliferatory response of the lymphocytes that kill yeasts.

Other patients have decreased killing function by peripheral neutrophils, and deficiencies in IgA secretory component in vaginal samples. IgA deficiencies are very common and the condition is for life. Of course excessive glucose levels are a problem and this can be secondary to low grade bacterial infection

The immune system problems above have been clearly linked to estrogen dominance. In a scientific study done in 1999 by Paul L. Fidel Jr., Jessica Cutright, and Chad Steele of Louisiana State University, and published in the American Society of Microbiology in 2000. They found that progesterone has no effect on vaginal candida in mice but excess estrogen promoted its growth. They also found that excess estrogen reduced the ability of skin cells, and the t-cells that protect them, to prevent colonization of candida on the vaginal walls.

Estrogen is also responsible for glycogen levels in the vagina and glycogen feeds yeast. It has also been linked to breast cancer and reduced function of the Thymic gland. The Thymic gland helps immune system t-cells that are grown in the bone marrow mature. At a certain stage of t-cell growth in the bone marrow they migrate to the thymic gland to mature. Upon maturity of the t-cells, the thymic gland releases them into the body.

To find out if you might be estrogen dominant click here.

Diflucan is the most popular prescribed drug for vaginal yeast infections, and most doctors usually prescribe one to three tablets thinking this will solve the problem. 99% of the time it doesn’t, since the yeast has spread and become too deeply ingrained in the tissues where it actually hides from the drug. The infection disappears but usually always seems to return in a short time. Continued use can cause an adaption of candida where other species like candida glabrata take up residence, glabrata is more resistant to diflucan, almost immune.

Boric acid suppositories are also commonly prescribed and do kill all species of candida in the vagina unlike Gynazole-1 which does not, even though they claim it does. Send them an email and be persistent and they will admit that fact.

The problem with all these common medications is they in no way shape or form treat the cause of vaginal yeast infection. Even powerful anti-fungals can be hit and miss since there is no way to determine when to stop taking these drugs without testing. This problem is compounded by the fact fungi have the ability to build resistance to modern drugs like bad bacteria. All too often the yeast infection returns in a very short time, requiring more drugs. You continue on this vicious circle of relief, then flare up, not to mention some potentially dangerous side effects.

The taking of antibiotics is a major cause of vaginal yeast infection as well as intestinal yeast infections. Most of the time the yeast has actually spread through the anus to the vagina. Rectal itching is the most common symptom that confirms this is indeed what is happening but this can also indicate parasite infestation.

Women who wear synthetic pantyhose a lot, have three times the vaginal yeast infection rate of women who wear cotton underwear, due to the fact cotton allows the natural vaginal secretions to dry and synthetic materials do not.

Women are exposed to more chemicals than men due to commercially made cosmetics, facial cleansers and moisturizers, body lotions, and perfumes. All these chemicals within these products gradually wear down the immune system allowing yeast to eventually take control, usually after some kind of illness. They are also xenoestrogens and act like estrogen in the body.

The general consensus is that most recurrent cases of vaginal yeast infection are due from the transmission from the gastrointestinal tract and estrogen dominance. Allergies have also been reported to cause recurrent vaginal yeast infections and are usually caused by leaky gut syndrome which is positively linked to yeast infection of the intestines.

Another cause is sex with a partner that drinks beer. Beer is made out of brewers yeast and grains. These grains are usually moldy and not fit for food processing. The male that drinks beer can develop yeast infection of the skin on his penis. He has no problems with it and is totally unaware because the outside temperature of the skin is around 77 degrees, so it lies dormant. But once inside the vaginal canal, which is a very warm and inviting place for yeast to grow, it can become active. This can produce a vaginal yeast infection in the female very quickly.

Many women will have a vaginal yeast infection but absolutely no yeast cells in their stool, confirming that sex is most definitely the cause.

Some women actually misdiagnose a bacterial infection as a yeast infection, but the treatment is close to the same as far as safe and natural alternatives are concerned since they are caused by the same thing, a lack of good bacteria in the body.