Could Silver Be The Answer For Your Candida Symptoms?

While doing research to try and find ways to ease candida symptoms I came across some very interesting facts. It involves silver! Colloidal silver to be exact.

The website I found out this information was All-Natural.com

They said...

"Colloidal silver appears to be a powerful, natural antibiotic and preventative against infections. Acting as a catalyst, it reportedly disables the enzyme that one-celled bacteria, viruses and fungi need for their oxygen metabolism. They suffocate without corresponding harm occurring to human enzymes or parts of the human body chemistry. The result is the destruction of disease-causing organisms in the body and in the food."

This part caught my attention...

"We have all heard of the "super-germs" that are resistant to most modern antibiotics. Some believe that single-celled germs cannot mutate into silver-resistant forms, as happens with conventional antibiotics. Therefore no tolerance to colloidal silver would develop through mutation. Also, colloidal silver has not been demonstrated to interact or interfere with other medicines being taken. Inside the body, silver apparently does not form toxic compounds or react with anything other than a germ's oxygen-metabolizing enzyme. Colloidal silver may truly be a safe, natural remedy for many of mankind's ills."

With further research on the internet, at other different sites, what I found out was that the colloidal silver can provide a three-fold attack on the problems of candida.

First, the colloidal silver kills off anaerobic bacteria and viruses wherever it comes in contact with them. Therefore, the colloidal silver virtually provides a secondary immune system against all types of disease and infections, while treating the candida. Thus much of the problems of candida symptoms are treated immediately, before the candida can be cleaned out of the system.

Second, colloidal silver is unusually effective in treating the candida yeast infection itself.

And third, colloidal silver has a strange and dynamic way of healing injured and damaged tissues fast. Since yeast infections of all kinds usually attack and consume the living tissue, a healing process is badly needed, and colloidal silver supposedly has a very unique way of healing these tissues fast.

The recommended dosage at All-Natural.com to find relief from candida symptoms and other problems is ...

"1 - 4 teaspoons per day (25 - 100 mcg.) is generally considered to be a "nutritional amount" and is reported to be safe to use for extended periods of time. Amounts higher than this are generally considered "therapeutic amounts" and should only be used periodically."

They have one cautionary warning though...

"If your body is extremely ill or toxic, do not be in a hurry to clear up everything at once. If pathogens are killed off too quickly, the body's five eliminatory channels (liver, kidneys, skin, lungs and bowel) may be temporarily overloaded, causing flu-like conditions, headache, extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea or aching muscles. Ease off on the colloidal silver to a smaller amount and increase your distilled water intake. Regular bowel movements are a must in order to relieve the discomforts of detoxification. Resolve to reduce sugar and saturated fats from the diet, and exercise more. Given the opportunity, the body's natural ability to heal may amaze you."

Below is a list of diseases that colloidal silver is supposed to successfully treat, in which candida and yeast infections are both mentioned...This is a partial list, as there are over 650 in all...

Acne- Aids - allergies - appendicitis - arthritis - athletes foot - bladder infection - blood parasites - blood poisoning- boils - burns - cancer - candida - chronic fatigue - colitis - conjunctivitis - cystitis - dandruff- dermatitis - diabetes - diphtheria - eczema - gastro-enteritis - gonorrhoea - hayfever- hepatitis - herpes - impetigo - indigestion - keratitus - leprosy - leukaemia - malaria - meningitis - neurasthenia - parasitic infection - pneumonia - prostate infection - pruritis ani - psoriasis - rheumatics - rhinitis - ring worm - scarlet fever - septic conditions - seborreah septicaemia - shingles - staph and streptococcal - ulcers - viruses - warts - yeast infections etc.."

Apparently users continually report that colloidal silver will cure athlete's foot, vaginal yeast infections, as well as candida infections of the skin very quickly and then heals the damaged tissues. However, these are often signs of an inner infection. Until the yeast infection within the body is cured, external infections keep on returning. You need to find the root cause of your candida symptoms. That is no reason not to treat these conditions. But if they return, it is time to look to the source of the problems as being inward. One can, of course, find explanations for the sources of the reinfection. However, a healthy body seldom succumbs to these infections.

It seems that colloidal silver when used internally and locally is the most effective treatment available today for all of these conditions.

Whilst researching I came across a few interesting facts on the history of silver (nothing to do with candida, but interesting none the less! Enjoy!)...

Silver was used in Biblical times (Daniel) by the king of Persia who kept water stored safely in silver jars for long campaigns abroad. Similarly Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans stored water and fresh foods in silver containers to keep them from spoiling. Silver was a privilege of upper society. In the Middle Ages several devastating bubonic plagues wiped out whole villages and decimated Europe. But the aristocracy - dining with silverware and silver goblets - largely escaped the plagues unscathed. They were also widely known as the blue-bloods due to argyria from use of impure silver compounds from more primitive silver-smithing of that era. Even from Roman times, the wealthy would put a silver spoon in children's mouths to ward off disease - hence the phrase "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth". In early America, pioneers would put a silver dollar in milk to delay spoilage. In India even today you are often served food wrapped in silver foil both of which are eaten! Edible silver foil is a garnish available from Indian stores worldwide.

How Can You Know If You Have Candida Symptoms?

Are you experiencing candida symptoms or are your symptoms the result of something else? If you are not sure, there's a very easy home test that you can do to determine if you have a candida yeast infection. It 's a saliva test and is very quick and easy to do, all you have to do is spit!...

When you awake in the morning, before you put anything into your mouth, work up some saliva and spit it into a clear glass of water. After 30 minutes, look in the glass. If there are strings coming down from your saliva, or if the water turned cloudy, or if your saliva sank to the bottom, YOU MAY HAVE A CANDIDA CONCERN! Healthy saliva will simply float on the top!

(You may want to put out a glass of water in the bathroom or beside your bed the night before you wish to do the home candida saliva test, just to remind yourself not to brush your teeth prior to spitting into the glass.)

Candida is a yeast that lives in the human digestive system. It has the ability to change from a yeast and become a fungus. As a fungus it operates in a similar fashion to any other fungus such as athletes' foot fungus, etc. Candida is kept at low levels by the friendly bacteria that also reside in the digestive tract. The friendly bacteria feed on the candida, thus a balance in the body is maintained. Modern medicine's "gift" of antibiotics, birth control pills, cortisone and chemotherapy kill this friendly bacteria as do street drugs, alcohol, and junk food diets.

Once this friendly bacteria has been destroyed, the yeast begins to overgrow and take over the digestive system. Left untreated, it becomes a fungus and grows into a plant-like structure complete with roots. These roots can break through the intestinal walls, allowing the yeast to travel to other areas of the body such as the sinuses, throat, reproductive organs, the lungs and skin just to name a few.

A yeast infection is capable of producing over 100 different candida symptoms, some of the major ones are listed below...

• Vaginal odour and/or discharge
• Painful sex or sexual dysfunction
• PMS and/or menstrual pain
• Acne
• Eczema
• Respiratory Infections
• Food Allergies
• Gas
• Painful urination or other urinary disorders
• Depression or mood swings
• Chronic rashes
• Tiredness or fatigue
• Irritability
• Joint pain or swelling
• Feeling run down
• Digestive pain
• Muscle aches
• Short attention span
• Headaches or constant migraines
• Impotence
• Hypoglycemia
• Skin Lesions
• Shortness of Breath
• Learning and Memory Problems
• Blurred Vision
• Brain Fog
• Yeast Infections in Your Toe or Fingernails
• Leaky Gut Syndrome
• Premature Aging

As you can see, the symptoms are so varied no one person has all the same set as another. The average candida sufferer has 20 or more of these (while others have less and some have more). Many times they have given up on ever finding out what was wrong with them because all of these symptoms seem unrelated.

A yeast infection starts from the inside and can only be treated and cured from the inside. If you continue to treat your yeast infection externally by killing the yeast or by using antibiotics you are literally putting your health on the line and you will never get rid of your yeast infection. You see, most people who fail to cure their candida symptoms are simply repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Even the natural products that promise to kill the source of the infection (e.g. killing candida albicans) do not work because candida is a naturally occurring yeast that is found in everybody and the only way to get rid of it is to neutralize the environment that encourages its overgrowth, not by killing the yeast.

Your body sends you messages all the time. Most of us ignore the majority of them. A yeast infection is after all a desperate message from your body telling you something is wrong inside.

The key to your success is working with your body by stopping the internal cause of the yeast infection while maintaining that inner natural balance where candida symptoms cease to exist.