Just how serious can a yeast infection in children become?
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.
