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- adjective medicine Acting to combat or prevent an infection with the
yeast Candida albicans
Etymologies
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Examples
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In many cases the candida overgrowth is so endemic that patients may have to consider seeing a medical doctor and using anticandida drugs such as nystatin or diflucan.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Marshall immediately put her on the anticandida drug nystatin and a low-carbohydrate diet.
Chicago Reader 2010
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For those hypersensitive to chemicals, anticandida medication may have little effect, while other treatments do produce results.
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Truss gave anticandida medicines to schizophrenics, and some, he claimed, showed phenomenal improvement.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Only years later did she learn that yogurt has a high concentration of a substance that fosters the growth of anticandida bacteria in the intestine.
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For those with food allergies, he notes, anticandida treatment usually causes some improvement.
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In the 1960s while treating a woman with vaginitis, Truss observed that the anticandida drug nystatin also appeared to relieve her severe depression -- a condition no one had assumed was related to her yeast infection.
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With nothing to lose at this stage, Truss gave the patient a known anticandida medication, and almost miraculously the symptoms disappeared and the man quickly recovered.
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