"Simple Home Candida Test:

Try this simple test to see if you have candida. First thing in the morning, before you put ANYTHING in your mouth, get a clear glass. Fill with water and work up a bit of saliva, then spit it into the glass of water. Check the water every 15 minutes or so for up to one hour. If you have a candida yeast infection, you will see strings (like legs) traveling down into the water from the saliva floating on the top, or "cloudy" saliva will sink to the bottom of the glass, or cloudy specks will seem to be suspended in the water.

If there are no strings and the saliva is still floating after at least one hour, you are probably candida yeast free.

If you have a bunch of threads or cloudiness, and especially if it develops quickly, you can be pretty darn sure you have a serious case of candida infecting you. A few threads or light cloudiness indicate not as serious an infestation.

NOTICE--Unfortunately you can still have candida yeast, the spit test is not 100%. The best way to test for candida yeast is find a doc who has a Bradford Variable Projection Microscope and have a live blood analysis done or get a stool test done. Many chiropractors use the Bradford High Resolution Microscope."

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I don't know if smoking affects it in any way, except that I know that the burning is more intense when dragging on a cigarette, when the cause of the burning is thrush.

Cherie