Greetings!
It's Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the CanXida range of products.
I've got a question here that was put to me through my Facebook page.
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People often come in there and ask questions or check out some of the posts I put in there.
Freda is in Sweden and Freda is saying, "Can my house be the cause of my Candida infection?"
Freda, you live in Sweden like I live in New Zealand.
If you look at people that live in Canada, Scotland, Sweden, these cool damp temperate
areas, they can be quite prone to molds, different mildews and molds.
If you can actually see visible mold or mildew on walls or see dark spots in different rooms,
that's a really big problem.
It tells you that you're going to have a ton of freely circulating different spores floating
in the air.
Doctor Leo Galland, the mold expert from New York, calls these tiny floating particles
"bio-aerosols".
These contain fungi and different types of yeasts and molds actually in them and they
float around.
Tiny little satellites that float in the air.
You can't even see them.
If you're a type of person who will feel better in one house and worse in another or you go
and live in an apartment, flat or a house and all of a sudden you develop a sickness,
or you move from an apartment into another house and you get better, there's a big chance
that that environment may have been a problem.
Often if it's a damp place, first thing you do is check out the molds.
Check out the bathroom.
Check out the bedrooms.
Look at the ceilings.
Look at the walls.
If there's any dampness at all and you're coughing and you're sick, you need to get
the heck out of there.
I'm just going to read out some symptoms.
Typical symptoms we find with exposure to environment.
These are the ones we're looking at.
Blocked nose, cold or flu-like symptoms, coughing, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
or wheezing, hay fever symptoms, hair loss, itchy nose, itchy eyes, itchy ear, irritated
or itchy skin, itchy throat, nasal congestion, blood shot or red eyes, runny nose, sore throat,
sinus congestion, watery eyes, wheezing, sneezing.
You can see there are a lot of ear, nose and throat kind of symptoms.
These are the areas you're going to get the primary initial exposure to these bio-aerosols.
You're going to breathe it in.
In New Zealand, we've had a big problem in the early 2000s with what we call "leaky buildings".
Many, many thousands of houses were built very quickly to meet a demand.
And a lot of these homes were not insulated properly and the roof wasn't constructed properly.
There are a lot of builders with poor qualifications making these houses.
A lot of houses were leaky as a result, which caused an incredible amount of health problems
and asthma and lots of disease with people.
Can my house be the cause?
It definitely can.
It can either bring a Candida problem right to the foreground and exacerbate it or it
can cause a problem through the mold exposure and develop a really big immune dysfunction.
In some cases, these can lead to autoimmune disease and serious illness.
Doctors don't take mold exposure at all serious in a person's environment.
They laugh it off sometimes.
Just like Candida.
They don't even take it seriously.
My answer to your question is "yes, your house can be the cause of Candida or a mold problem."
The reason why, Candida, not necessarily floats in the air.
But if you've got Candida already growing in your body naturally but it's in balance
like about one in four people have, it can become an overgrowth or a problem due to mold
exposure in the air, which can trigger big immune responses and allow immunity to become
compromised and allowing Candida to become opportunistic and can become a big infection.
There are different tests you can do for mold, but in my opinion, you're better off just
really temporarily moving into another house to see how you feel.
If you feel a lot better in a different environment, then you want to move out of that house permanently.
Get out of there.
If it's a rented house, many landlords are reluctant to fix these problems.
If it's your own home, spend the money, get it done properly.
Fix it up.
That's my answer.
I hope that gives you a little bit of understanding there, Freda.
Thanks for your question.
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