Hi anon, you don't need to be allergic to perfumes etc, or get worse in damp places to have candida. It affects everybody differently. Some people may get more mental symptoms, another may get allergies, someone may get reproductive symptoms, and some get them all just about.
Also, the sugar thing? There is enough energy/sugars contained in just about every good food you eat. Vegetables all have natural sugars, tomatoes are allowed and they are a fruit. Everything on the diet provides more than enough natural sugar and energy for the body, even meats and the healthy fats, plus it is sustained because it's natural and does not harm of cause imbalance or highs and lows that can lead to more serious conditions.
White sugar, is bad because it's a temporary lift, plus if anything it can CAUSE blood sugar problems and diabetes also. It actually can create the problems you are mentioning and anybody unwell should never eat sugar. It feeds yeast, it can directly poison the body, it prevents a lot of ability to absorb nutrients, can cause just about anything and everything.
Only natural sugars provide a slow safer natural sustained lift. Fruit is healthy, but again for candida it's best avoided temporarily. Again, tomatoe is a fruit anyway, but it is not over sweet so it is allowed.
It's up to you. As I said, you WILL get worse from dropping these unhealthy things from the diet, that is part of the die off and healing process.
. There is no such thing as a quick fix or magic bullet or pill that will cure all our ills. The only thing that can cure a person is their own body. The only way to do that is give the body what it needs to rid itself of toxicity and heal. Diet is the first and best thing to sort out and from there, if there is a underlining problems such as mercury or something else, then to get that remedied at some point.
It is hard to find a doctor who even believes in candida, but most tests do not show it. The best test is to look up candida and look at the symptom list and that is often enough. Most sick people have candida anyway, it just comes along for the ride. So it's good to go on that diet, because it heals. Even a healthy person would do well to do this diet anyway as a way of keeping them that way. One other test is to have a big glass of water by your bed when you go to sleep. Upon waking in the morning, before eating or drinking or even brushing your teeth, you spit into the glass of water and leave it and check on it later on and see if there are changes in the spit. Usual tell tale signs are strands falling down from the spit, or flecks in the middle of the glass or even that the spit has sunk to the bottom of the glass. You need to hold the glass up to see this properly. usually if candida is under control, the spit will stay where it is on teh surface and nothing will sink. But again, some people do not always find this overly accurate. The symptoms list is the best test to see if you may have a candida problem. Here is a link to such a test
http://www.mall-net.com/cgibin/quiz4.cgi?quiz=crook.qaCheers.
