JK, thank you for this article. It has answered a very important question for me. My doctor told me to take a teaspoon of baking soda 3 times a day for two weeks and then drop back to a maintainance dose of one teaspoon twice daily.

I tried it and I felt worse. The yeast felt even worse and instead of "die off" i felt something opposite occur and i was up most of the night last night in a state. I was also itching in certain places I won't mention excessively and it didn't feel like the same itching I get with die off (as odd as that sounds, you get to know yourself pretty well).

Now her reasons for this? To increase alkilinity in my body. WEll guess what? The article warns against this and says it can make yeast WORSE. Promotes yeast overgrowth and how candida people are often already too alkiline. This may make sense as to why things got worse for me.

I don't think I'll be taking that again.