Covid Candida

Covid Candida

Yes, you’ve heard me right! Many people, especially children, have developed candida overgrowth during lockdown. Being home, eating more, indulging in comfort foods and less exercise, have all lead to this. Children who would not usually be culprits of overgrowth, are now sitting with this unruly villain.

Candida is not for the faint hearted. Candida is the normal flora that lives in your gut. Candida overgrowth is when the normal digestive gut health gets corrupted by candida that takes over. Candida feeds on sugar and simple carbohydrates, which most of us have been indulging on during our prolonged stay at home. This is not your normal “holiday binge” but rather an extended, overstayed family in your midst.

 

Symptoms can vary from:

·     Brain fog

·     Lethargy

·     Irritation

·     White coating on the tongue

·     Bloating

·     Genital itching and irritation

·     Possible anal itching that have spread

·     Genital burning

 

Treatment:

One of the first things, is to make this “overstayed family” feel unwelcome. Stop giving them sugary and refined, processed food. You need to starve it first. You need to feed them healthy greens, lots of vegetables, especially raw, and wholegrains like brown rice and oats. Then you need to feed them lots of garlic and olive leaf extract, which is really bitter. Wake then in the morning with warm water with lemon juice and ginger. Guests will stay if they get creamy coffee with sugar and rusks!

Once they are out of the house, then you need to have a good cleaning. Water, lemon juice, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, fresh herbs, apple cider vinegar. Get your “bottle brush” ready to scrub those intestines. That is where your brown rice and vegetables come in. The good fibre that you need to scrub out those nasties.

Then you need to soothe and re colonise the good flora by taking in probifloras. There are many on the market. You can try FloraFood by AIM. myaimstore.com/healthamplified

Remember that stress and antibiotics can also cause underlying digestive issues, which then leads to imbalances in your gut.

So enjoy your family and friends on occasion, and don’t let them overstay their welcome. You might end up regretting it!

Lizelle

Recipes:

Quick Asian rice noodles

 

 

Rice noodles

Green pepper

Red pepper

Red onion

Sliced brown mushrooms

Green herbs

Garlic

Roasted peanuts

Avo

Pink salt

Nutritional yeast (optional)

Balsamic vinegar, lemon juice or soya sauce

-Soak noodles in salted boiling water, about 8 minutes.

-Fry onions and peppers in a little olive oil.

-Add mushrooms, herbs and salt.

-Serve noodles with the mixture, top with avo, roasted peanuts and lemon juice.

-Sprinkle with nutritional yeast.

*We buy raw peanuts and then dry roast them at 140 degrees Celsius until the skins start coming off. Keep an eye on it so that it doesn’t burn or turn rancid.

Cauli pesto guacamole

1 Cauliflower head broken into florets

3 Avo’s

2 Tbsp basil pesto

Apple cider vinegar to taste

Garlic

Pink salt to taste

Black pepper

-Place everything in a food processor until smooth (or chunky if preferred).

-Serve with carrot and cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes, pickled onions and seed crackers.