QUICK NEED RECIPE - GF/Yeast Free/ Sugar Free
 

I'm on the search for a bread recipe for a friend who is on the Candida diet. It looks like she can eat Garbanzo bean (chick pea flour), millet (in limit quanity), and quinoa.
I can make a bread she can it!!! I think... Baking Soda and Powder I hope are okay on the diet.

I'm making a meal for her, she is nursing twins and is just not feeling well at all given she is now one a 3rd round of Diflucan with very little results. She had been on the Candida diet for 4 months and still not well. With 5 other children she needs all the help she can get.

Anyway, I've found a Stevia, no flour chocolate cake recipe I'm going to try - what a treat for her! I hope it comes out. She has super will power, she went to a wedding and didn't have wedding cake, cookies, nothing. She really wants this yeast gone from her breast!!!

Is she also treating the babies?
Thrush can easily get passed back and forth. I've even heard of the dh needing to get treated for particularly difficult bugs! If you are up to it, and she'll let you, I bet helping her with the wash would *really* help (more than just her sanity).
Everything that touches her breast needs to be washed in hot water or at least a vinegar dip. Her bras should be changed fairly frequently (yeah, I know, she's got time for *that*), baby burp rags and bibs, paci's get dipped in vinegar and thoroughly washed after *each* use. All teething toys get the vinegar dip. All soft toys go through the wash. Sheets changed daily. Towels become one use only. Throw vinegar into the rinse cycle. Everything that can take HOT water gets it.

I'm thinking with 5 other children, much of that is not going to get priority. But, would really help her to get the candida under control. ( I nursed my kids forever, and was a peer advisor for a couple years in case you're wondering what on Earth I know about it, LOL)


As for the recipe...if there's no history of anaphylactic allergies, nut bread should work. I use about 1/2 cup almond butter, 1-2 eggs (2 make a cakier consistency) and a few TBS water and bake in a small loaf pan in the toaster oven for about 20 minutes. Its not quite bread...but its good. (Well...dh says interesting, but since he'll eat half of it, it can't be *bad*)
I don't know if CHEBE bread would be okay or not, but there are sugar free mixes.

WHich nut bread recipe are you refering too?
I took out my Bette Hagman Bread book and I'm concerned that the starch requirement would make it not safe for her to eat. Garbanzo bean flour with millet is fine, but what about the starch?
I'm also looking at subbing the sugar, so it might not turn out as desired. Millet and garbanzo are bitter flours, without sugar they are really hard to swallow.

Er...that is my nut bread recipe ;) 1/2 cup almond butter, 1-2 eggs...a bit of water. beat together and cook. Makes only about 1-2 servings...so it'd be a nice snack for her, but not something to make for the family (Yikes, that'd be LOT of Almond Butter!)

Check out the SCDrecipes.com or pecanbread.com too...you'll have to watch out for fruit and honey, but otherwise, its pretty much just an alternate approach to yeast free diet. (designed to starve off the bad bugs in one's gut)

Dairy free
 

is the nursing mom dairy free? That might be making her sick if she is eating dairy & has an intolerance.

Mrs. D. gavd excellent advice. Since I have been battling a chronic yeast problem for the past 4 years, in addition to the candida diet, these are a couple of things which might be of help:

all cotton underwear, and don't use dryer sheets when drying clothes.

My Gyn doctor had me make up boric acid suppositories, and use for a period of 2 weeks when the normally prescribed medications did not work, including 13 courses of Diflucan in one year (I am not diabetic), and this is also recommended by Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, MD, FACOG, author of "The V Book".

It was also recommended that I take a probiotic, Culturelle.

At the current moment I am yeast free.

I realize that your friend may not have time for all of this because of her multiple duties with 5 children, plus the twins, but hopefully some of these suggestions might help.

Marilyn

Thrush treatment
 

When my daughter was a baby, we had thrush for 10 months. I don't think it helps to wash everything in the house -- and you can make yourself completely crazy with that. Every time I touched a lightswitch, or my computer keyboard, or anything else, I'd worry that I was catching more yeast. What I think happens is that something in the body is out of balance and that's what's letting the yeast grow.

Also, there are new strains of yeast that are resistant to the usual prescription treatments (diflucan, nystatin, etc.).

What worked for us was a policy of containment, rather than trying to completely eradicate the yeast. We'd treat the baby and me with gentian violet, and that was enough to keep us comfortable for several weeks. Then we'd do gentian violet again. Gentian violet is an antibacterial/antifungal purple liquid that costs about $2 for a little bottle, and you don't need a prescription for it. It stains everything it touches. We used to call my daughter "the purple baby of happiness" when we had treated with gentian violet, because she would be so much more comfortable after we painted her mouth purple that she smiled purple smiles at everybody. It was pretty funny.

If you do use gentian violet, you should do some reading about how to do it safely, because it can be toxic if the baby swallows a lot of it.

It also helped me a lot to cut *all* refined sugar out of my diet and concentrate on eating a lot of healthy veggie-based foods.

Also: I've met people who swear by "Dr. Jack Newman's All Purpose Nipple Ointment." If you do a web search you should be able to find the recipe for that, and also plenty of thrush-treatment advice.

I wish good luck to your friend. Thrush is no fun.

-Valerie

Chickpea Flatbread recipe
 

Here's a recipe for Chickpea Flatbread that we've been enjoying a lot at my house:

Mix 1/2 cup of chickpea flour, 1/2 cup of water, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. (The cookbook says to stir the water into the flour little by little. I've been doing that, but I'm not sure it's necessary.) Wipe or spray a tiny amount of oil onto a 10 inch frying pan (mine is nonstick; non-nonstick might need more oil). Heat the frying pan for a few minutes, then pour in the batter and tilt the pan around to make a big circle. Then let it cook for 4-5 minutes on one side, flip it, and cook it for another 4-5 minutes on the other side. I've been cutting them into eighths like slices of a pie, then using the still warm pieces as wrappers for hummus or egg salad. Very yummy! These seem to reheat well in the microwave, too.

The original recipe said to also take 1/4 teaspoon of oregano and crumble it into a powder, ditto for 1/4 teaspoon of basil, and add 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder, and add that to the chickpea flour at the beginning. I did that for the first few of these, but then we decided that we like them better plain.

I hope that's useful....

-Valerie

Great advice by all!

Probiotics (milk-free and gluten-free) that are meant for nursing moms, should help! See a good health food store's probiotic sections. Avoid probiotics that contain FOS's (fructo-oligo-saccharides). These FOS's do feed the good bacteria, in milk-free preparations, but, the FOS's can also feed bad bacteria, resulting in digestive upsets! FOS's are not needed, if she takes the probiotics daily. This solves the problem of the probiotics not "colonizing" in her large intestine, due to lack of availability of their favorite food--milk.

Also, in case she might have a period (she might not, since nursing), she should avoid internal tampons, which incubate the yeast (Candida) cells (like how tampons incubate toxic shock syndrome bacteria).

For a sweetener that is very natural, and if she tolerates dates well, she could try putting a few organic dates in a glass of good quality water, (after pitting the dates), and then, blenderize and use the date/water mixture. Or, she could use a small amount of brown rice syrup (gluten-free).

I'm surprised that her docs allowed her to take a strong anti-fungal medication, while nursing!

Carol
http://cantbreathesuspectvcd.com

Yeast Infections
 

I have switched to alternative medicine for the past 7 years, and have done much research on certain health conditons we face in our industrialized culter today. For the yeast, I would look into food allergies, and as one post mentioned be very careful and selective on which pro-biotic you use, the vitamin/natural health industry is in for money as for the pharmaceuticals, there are the good and bad, one natural antibiotic that has been around for centuries and not be "patented" is the "colloidal silver" it is proven fact it kills the "super bug" so called it is a staph which is spreading tremendously because of the over and misuse of antibiotics, this staph has developed an immunitity, the usual antibiotics can not kill it, however, with the thrush, yeast, it is an inbalance of your body, and most likely you need a good cleansing and fasting of all foods you feel might be causing the allergen. Also, thyroid or your body is lacking enzymes, which our body needs badly. I would be very careful to injest anything in our body that is not natural due to the fact you are giving it to your nursing babies. I wish I would have known all this when I was pregnant, because of my indulgence during my first pregnancy, I have carried over some things to my first child, like eating carbs, processed food etc, but it is amazing how important our role is..sorry to go on I have a passion to help others heal, share all my research, anyway, colloidal silver 10ppm, will kill any bug in your body, the more ppm the more you use external, like washing counters wounds etc... hope this is useful. Beth:)