Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of intestinal candidiasis

There are several types of this disease: vaginal, systemic, and candidiasis of the intestine. In this article we will talk about the treatment of the latter. Nowadays, everyone is exposed to various infections, which we can not even guess about.

Causes of Candidiasis of the Intestine

Initially, there are frequent problems with digestion, which can be caused by improper diet, antibiotics, smoking and alcohol consumption. After a while you can already feel the first signs of intestinal candidiasis .

If we talk about alcohol, then it is capable of killing a useful microflora of the intestine, as a result of which dysbacteriosis arises and the immunity of the gastrointestinal tract is significantly reduced. There may be chronic enteritis, as well as gastritis. Not to mention the harm of alcohol for the liver, which starts to work poorly.

In general, the use of alcoholic beverages, treatment with strong antibiotics and malnutrition are the main causes of various gastric diseases, including intestinal candidiasis.

Symptoms

Among the most common symptoms of intestinal candidiasis are the following:

• Feeling of incomplete emptying, frequent visits to the toilet (especially in the morning time);
• Sharp painful spasms of the intestine after eating, gas, bubbling;
• diarrhea;
• Unpleasant sensations of pain in the stomach;
• Skin rash - hives, acne in the back and face;
• Irritability, weakness, drowsiness.

It should be noted that the likelihood of intestinal candidiasis in some people is much higher. These include: those who have weakened the immune system; aged people; Small children; Women during pregnancy. In addition, severe stress and nervous breakdowns are also common causes of this disease, which is caused by a violation of the intestinal microflora. Candidiasis may occur in the treatment with strong antibiotics that destroy the natural flora of the intestine, as well as during hormonal disorders.

Diagnosis of the disease

For reliable diagnosis, it is necessary to conduct laboratory tests, with which you can detect increased activity of fungi that stimulate candidiasis. But nevertheless there is a way of definition of disease which can be spent in house conditions.

In the morning, after waking up, you need to spit as much saliva into a glass beaker filled with clean water. Before that, do not brush your teeth. It is best that the water is from a source or well, and not from the tap. Leave it for 30 minutes. If after this time the saliva drowns to the bottom, then in your body a large number of fungi Candida. If the saliva remains floating on the surface of the water, then most likely, you have other problems with the intestines, not related to candidiasis.

Regardless of what result the test will show you, you should contact the doctor. It is necessary to pass the analysis of a feces on a dysbacteriosis which will reliably confirm or will provoke presence of a high quantity of mushrooms of a candidate in your intestine.

Treatment of candidiasis of the intestine

After you pass all the necessary tests and the disease is confirmed, the doctor will prescribe the appropriate treatment for you. Most often, preparations are used against intestinal dysbacteriosis, since candidiasis and intestinal dysbacteriosis are the causes of the same problem. It should be noted that the course of treatment is assigned individually for each patient.

The most commonly used antifungal medicines, for example, Pimafucin. The drug in tablets acts only inside the intestine and is not absorbed into the blood. But still you should not take it yourself, as some contraindications are possible.