Oral thrush eventually successful treatment

[earthnymph]

Hi, someone mentioned thrush in another post, and I thought it might be useful to share info about oral thrush and eventually successful treatment:

The docs changed my inhalers for asthma, I got a rotten dose of oral thrush because apparently new inhaler had smaller particles that stay on the tongue. Back to original inhalers, but thrush would not go. I’m diabetic so I provide a sweet environment for it.

I had daktarin, then nystatin, then itraconazole (made my teeth feel very strange). Three months on it had not gone. Then my cousin recommended capryllic acid, a component from coconut oil in tablet form. I got this off the internet and it shifted the thrush really efficiently and it hasn’t come back since, phew.

I now use coconut oil in cooking regularly and haven’t had thrush of any orifice since, it’s been a couple of years now.

Hope this is useful to people x

[Nackapan]

Yes very helpful thank you. My husband is diabetic and gets it at times. I had ig for the first time in my mouth since bring b12 deficient

I o otisllg tried tk avoid getting it less sugar probiotics

Got it from antibiotics fir s tooth. Moth gel helped but didnt shift it.

Fluconazole tablet 50mg did.

I do use coconut oil a little in cooking . Mainly flapjacks!!

[earthnymph in reply to Nackapan]

Yes, diabetics are prone to it, and antibiotics caused it every time for me. Probiotics are great but I find I need a really good whammy of high dose ones after antibiotics, for quite a long while. After so long trying to get rid of it with medication that time, and you know the pain it causes going on and on, I was amazed how well the natural option (capryllic acid) worked. I’ve had to take antibiotics since then, and I took capryllic acid at the same time and for a week after, and didn’t get thrush.

[fbirder]

Doesn't capryllic acid have a goaty smell? That's where the name comes from.

[earthnymph in reply to fbirder]

😂 the tablets are whiffy, not sure I’d describe it as goaty, it’s a sour kind of smell. I didn’t kick out a pong when taking them though (honestly, I have good friends who would tell me if I didn’t notice myself) 😊

[fbirder in reply to earthnymph]

Yup capryllic acid, capric acid, and a couple of others, are what makes goats milk smell sour when it goes off.

[earthnymph in reply to fbirder]

Ah, very interesting thanks 😊

[lifegems in reply to fbirder]

But it’s in coconut oil yes ? I take kefir does that have it ? I think it helps with the pain I get from the gastritis

[earthnymph in reply to lifegems]

Kefir has its own culture, symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (scoby) and it’s very beneficial in its own right, I’m sorry I have no idea if it contains capryllic acid. If you can use goats milk it might do? Sorry this is guess work. I used water kefir, I would guess there is no capryllic acid in that... for thrush I think tablets probably better, as concentrated dose. For general prevention I think cooking with coconut oil is enough. This is just my experience though, and we’re all different in what our bodies need

[lifegems in reply to earthnymph]

Okeydoky! Thank you 😊

[fbirder in reply to lifegems]

Yes, it is in coconut oil.