How do you treat Esophageal candidiasis?
No, I do not have HIV, Diabetes or Thyroid problems. All confirmed, conclusive, rock-solid negative results. I have been had ANY possible HIV exposures within the 6 month testing window.
I had a mild case of oral thrush for a while. This is a self-diagnosis. Doctors / medics did not seem concerned with the described symptoms.
I developed a sore throat that mimics thyroid pain followed by a mostly unproductive cough.
I occasionally cough up very little, thin, clear mucus. I sometimes get clear mucus out of my nose as well.
I did Amoxycillin for 3 days, then Zocef for around a week & a half. In addition, I was on several decongestants, anti-allergy, etc. The cough & throat symptoms seemed to diminish slightly / some while on treatment
The self-diagnosed mild oral thrush became angry, doctor-confirmed oral thrush toward the end of my treatment.
So now the throat & cough are back. I am trying to treat the tongue thrush symptoms with some clotramizole liquid.
One of the suggested answers that I received from this thread (see link for complete history of this issue) is that I may have esophageal candidasis.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Agz83foCZo1aTIX6j9AfhSPsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091220124355AArNGHg
I had a CBC done about 3 months ago and my granulocytes were slightly low (1 or 2 outside of the low threshold). And my lymphocytes were slightly high (1 or 2 outside the high threshold). I had recently gotten over a flu-like cold.
How is this treated?
Is it possible or LIKELY that I will have this for life?
I’m reading about mortality rates from candidas… is candidas the same as thrush?
Thrush can kill you?
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So you also asked if you have TB in another post. Your link goes directly to a question about TB and throat lumps. The CBC is what I’d expect after a recent infection and so is not significant. "Candidas" isn’t quite right. It’s candidiasis. It means an infection caused a genus of yeast known as Candida and usually by one member called Candida albicans. Those mortality rates you’ve looked at are no doubt a result of systemic infection, not local infection which is what oral candidiasis is. As for how oral candidiasis is treated, it’s treated aggressively with antifungals. The best ones are topical, those that are applied directly to the site of the infection. Nystatin suspension is one antifungal medication used in addition to Clotrimazole and both are effective against C. albicans. Clotrimazole also comes in a troche, which is a lozenge. Esophageal candidiasis is treated with a topical antifungal that can be swallowed.
Understand this: Yeasts and molds are fungi and fungal infections tend to be tenacious. If you’ve ever treated yourself for athlete’s foot (tinea pedis) or jock itch (tinea cruris) you already know this. Oral candidiasis, in fact any candidal infection, needs treatment that is as persistent, as tenacious, as stubborn as the infection itself, particularly if the infection has gotten a strong foothold. It can take up to a year and sometimes longer to resolve. This means you don’t give up after 3 months, or 6 months, or 8 months. A fungus survives by digging in and hanging on. They’re very hardy. You’ll have to do & be the same.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:00 amThrush = candida abd unless you are immunosupressed it can’t kill you. Its likely the the antibiotics made the candida worse . Its very unlikely that unless you are having trouble swollowing the you have oesohhegal candida. Its treated with oral antifungals like fluconazole
December 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am