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I thought I would post this up because it is something not many of us realize can happen. We generally think of this as a yeast infection, and that only women need to worry about it. WRONG. Especially hormone users, are susceptible to this threat. Read this:
Yeast infections result from an overgrowth of Candida Albicans
Candida Albicans are a form of yeast that is normally found in the lower bowel, the vagina (and sometimes the penis -- especially uncircumsized) and the skin. In healthy individuals the presence of candida albicans is considered a normal part of the bowel flora... the community of bacterial organisms that live in the lower digestive tract.
As long as your immune system is healthy and strongly functioning... Candida albicans growth is regulated and kept under control.
Normally the presence of "friendly" bacteria like... Bifidobacteria bifidum and Lactobacillus acidophilus in the intestinal tract provides a natural control mechanism to prevent the overgrowth of candida albicans.
However, this "friendly" bacterial environment can become compromised so that an imbalance occurs. If this happens — and it can quiet often — then the candida albican yeast cells have an opportunity to over-populate rampantly and become infecting to other body organs and tissues.
Candidiasis = Yeast Overgrowth . . .
Yeast infections have opportunities to take hold when our body systems become imbalanced. Imbalances in your system initiated by exposure to and the use of:
» antibiotics and sulfa drugs
» steroid hormones» immunosuppressant drugs
» improper diets and dieting
» a myriad of environmental agent
In time a weakened immune system may relinquish control, giving candida an opportunity to proliferate and transform into a harmful fungus — a condition called Candidiasis — which can severely harm one's overall health status.
In severe cases — for instance when candidiasis (the fungal form of candida) is present — it can break down the mucosal lining between the bloodstream and the gastrointestinal tract.
This breakdown may facilitate passage of harmful toxins and allergens into the bloodstream. Some seventy-nine (79) different toxic substances have been identified in the blood. Once in the bloodstream these toxins are free to travel to all parts of your body, where they can produce a host of adverse symptoms and further weaken your immune system.
Usually, men are informed by their significant other that she has a yeast infection, so the chances are he has it too. Most doctors will prescribe an anti-fungal and suggest that the man takes it also, other wise he will give it back to her.
This is very true and worse, I am afraid, especially if she has a vaginal infection. During sex, the males urethra is exposed and vulnerable to a male yeast infection from an infected female. The yeast can travel up the urethral canal and settle in the prostate gland.
Now you may not have problems for years but prostate cancer and prostate problems are affecting almost every male at some point in their life. Think about it, boys and young girls do not get reproductive yeast infections as near as often as adults, do they? Boys also do not have prostate problems or girls ever need a hysterectomy. This obviously shows me that sex is an additional cause of infections.
Men who drink beer have been known to have skin yeast on their penis. They are usually totally unaware they have a male yeast infection due to the outside temperature of the skin being about 77 degrees keeping the infection dormant. But the vaginal canal, being a very inviting place for yeast to grow, can activate the infection in the woman. Before the female notices symptoms, she can give it right back to the male, and it can travel up the urethral canal settling in the prostate. It then literally becomes a ticking time bomb.
In some cases, male yeast infections will be noticeable as a penile yeast infection that has dry cracked skin although the infection can occur most anywhere on the skin. When the man has an erection, this skin can crack and be extremely painful.
How Do Men Get A Male Yeast Infection?
All the causes of male yeast infection are the same for any other fungus infection including sex. Most often the good bacteria to yeast ratio in your digestive system becomes unbalanced, allowing the yeast fungi to thrive and spread to other parts of the body.
Male and yeast infection in boys most common causes are antibiotics, alcohol, beer, sex, wheat products, corn products, peanuts, barley, and a weakened immune system. Other than the antibiotics, the rest contribute to candida overgrowth by weakening the immune system by killing good bacteria from the over acidity they produce in the intestine.
These common food products are universally contaminated with molds. We all unknowingly eat them thinking they are perfectly safe, but they are not in most cases since they are usually contaminated with molds and fungus. The powerful effect of molds in the body and modern medicine is best illustrated in the following paragraphs.
Take for instance Penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Dr. Fleming as he was running an experiment with mold from bread(wheat product). He took some of this mold and added it to his dish of live bacteria. What he noticed was that the mold completely cleared out the bacteria. The fungus killed the bacteria just as it does in your digestive system when you take antibiotics.
Think back how many times in your life you went to the doctor for a chest cold, or what ever it may have been, and you were prescribed an antibiotic. You took it, the cold cleared up and you thought everything was ok. What you didn't know is the antibiotic killed your good bacteria, also. Not all of it, since we have in a normal healthy human digestive system about 70 trillion beneficial bacteria, but you killed some allowing the male yeast infection to spread throughout your body. You have a cold beer every now and then, you killed some more. Male yeast infection thrives on beer and helps it grow due to the yeast being used in its production. You eat food unknowingly that contains molds, you killed some more. You eat sugar-laden foods, which feed the infection allowing it to grow and spread. This goes on until the fungus takes a good hold in your digestive system and becomes systemic. Piercing the lining of the intestine and spreading throughout the body. There have been cases of yeast encasing people's hearts and causing it to shut down.
The bottom line is you have let your immune system get worn down by the constant introduction of molds to your body. That is when you begin to experience some of the symptoms...
Common Male Yeast Infection Symptoms
Here are some of the more common symptoms you may experience with a male yeast infection. For more symptoms please see Symptom page link to the left.
Men and boys most commonly experience digestive problems and all the related problems as the number one symptom.
The more common symptoms of male yeast infection are constipation, bad breath, bloating, indigestion, frequent intestinal gas, frequent diarrhea, very loose stools, sexual dysfunction, irratibility and mood swings, fatigue or lack of energy, yellowing of nails (especially on toes) memory loss, jock itch, anal itching, dry itchy flaky skin, athletes feet, baggy eyes, and prostate problems. Symptoms may differ, come and go, and not every person experiences the same symptom.
You may also develop a craving for sweets, pastas, chips, etc. Any of the foods that feed the male yeast infection since the bacterial parasite demands to be fed, and you will more than likely feed it, until you realize you have it, and do something about it.
The Male Yeast Infection Simple Home Test
There is a simple test to see if you have a male yeast infection. The very first thing when you wake up in the morning, before you even get out of bed, spit twice into the glass of water that you left on your nightstand from the night before. Now over the course of the next 15 minutes watch the glass of water. If your spit just kind of dissolves and dissipates in the water, you do not have an infection.
If on the other hand it becomes cloudy, with strings, sinks to the bottom, looks like spider webs, you could possibly have it. If there is sediment in the bottom of the glass after 30 minutes or so then you have parasites also and will have to deal with them first. It will be very noticeable, so don't worry about being unsure if you have it or not. In most cases, you will be able to tell in the first 5 minutes.
Fellas, make sure to keep sugars low, and probiotics are also good. Acidophilis, yogurt, and tea tree oil are all good home remedies.
Yeast infections result from an overgrowth of Candida Albicans
Candida Albicans are a form of yeast that is normally found in the lower bowel, the vagina (and sometimes the penis -- especially uncircumsized) and the skin. In healthy individuals the presence of candida albicans is considered a normal part of the bowel flora... the community of bacterial organisms that live in the lower digestive tract.
As long as your immune system is healthy and strongly functioning... Candida albicans growth is regulated and kept under control.
Normally the presence of "friendly" bacteria like... Bifidobacteria bifidum and Lactobacillus acidophilus in the intestinal tract provides a natural control mechanism to prevent the overgrowth of candida albicans.
However, this "friendly" bacterial environment can become compromised so that an imbalance occurs. If this happens — and it can quiet often — then the candida albican yeast cells have an opportunity to over-populate rampantly and become infecting to other body organs and tissues.
Candidiasis = Yeast Overgrowth . . .
Yeast infections have opportunities to take hold when our body systems become imbalanced. Imbalances in your system initiated by exposure to and the use of:
» antibiotics and sulfa drugs
» steroid hormones» immunosuppressant drugs
» improper diets and dieting
» a myriad of environmental agent
In time a weakened immune system may relinquish control, giving candida an opportunity to proliferate and transform into a harmful fungus — a condition called Candidiasis — which can severely harm one's overall health status.
In severe cases — for instance when candidiasis (the fungal form of candida) is present — it can break down the mucosal lining between the bloodstream and the gastrointestinal tract.
This breakdown may facilitate passage of harmful toxins and allergens into the bloodstream. Some seventy-nine (79) different toxic substances have been identified in the blood. Once in the bloodstream these toxins are free to travel to all parts of your body, where they can produce a host of adverse symptoms and further weaken your immune system.
Usually, men are informed by their significant other that she has a yeast infection, so the chances are he has it too. Most doctors will prescribe an anti-fungal and suggest that the man takes it also, other wise he will give it back to her.
This is very true and worse, I am afraid, especially if she has a vaginal infection. During sex, the males urethra is exposed and vulnerable to a male yeast infection from an infected female. The yeast can travel up the urethral canal and settle in the prostate gland.
Now you may not have problems for years but prostate cancer and prostate problems are affecting almost every male at some point in their life. Think about it, boys and young girls do not get reproductive yeast infections as near as often as adults, do they? Boys also do not have prostate problems or girls ever need a hysterectomy. This obviously shows me that sex is an additional cause of infections.
Men who drink beer have been known to have skin yeast on their penis. They are usually totally unaware they have a male yeast infection due to the outside temperature of the skin being about 77 degrees keeping the infection dormant. But the vaginal canal, being a very inviting place for yeast to grow, can activate the infection in the woman. Before the female notices symptoms, she can give it right back to the male, and it can travel up the urethral canal settling in the prostate. It then literally becomes a ticking time bomb.
In some cases, male yeast infections will be noticeable as a penile yeast infection that has dry cracked skin although the infection can occur most anywhere on the skin. When the man has an erection, this skin can crack and be extremely painful.
How Do Men Get A Male Yeast Infection?
All the causes of male yeast infection are the same for any other fungus infection including sex. Most often the good bacteria to yeast ratio in your digestive system becomes unbalanced, allowing the yeast fungi to thrive and spread to other parts of the body.
Male and yeast infection in boys most common causes are antibiotics, alcohol, beer, sex, wheat products, corn products, peanuts, barley, and a weakened immune system. Other than the antibiotics, the rest contribute to candida overgrowth by weakening the immune system by killing good bacteria from the over acidity they produce in the intestine.
These common food products are universally contaminated with molds. We all unknowingly eat them thinking they are perfectly safe, but they are not in most cases since they are usually contaminated with molds and fungus. The powerful effect of molds in the body and modern medicine is best illustrated in the following paragraphs.
Take for instance Penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Dr. Fleming as he was running an experiment with mold from bread(wheat product). He took some of this mold and added it to his dish of live bacteria. What he noticed was that the mold completely cleared out the bacteria. The fungus killed the bacteria just as it does in your digestive system when you take antibiotics.
Think back how many times in your life you went to the doctor for a chest cold, or what ever it may have been, and you were prescribed an antibiotic. You took it, the cold cleared up and you thought everything was ok. What you didn't know is the antibiotic killed your good bacteria, also. Not all of it, since we have in a normal healthy human digestive system about 70 trillion beneficial bacteria, but you killed some allowing the male yeast infection to spread throughout your body. You have a cold beer every now and then, you killed some more. Male yeast infection thrives on beer and helps it grow due to the yeast being used in its production. You eat food unknowingly that contains molds, you killed some more. You eat sugar-laden foods, which feed the infection allowing it to grow and spread. This goes on until the fungus takes a good hold in your digestive system and becomes systemic. Piercing the lining of the intestine and spreading throughout the body. There have been cases of yeast encasing people's hearts and causing it to shut down.
The bottom line is you have let your immune system get worn down by the constant introduction of molds to your body. That is when you begin to experience some of the symptoms...
Common Male Yeast Infection Symptoms
Here are some of the more common symptoms you may experience with a male yeast infection. For more symptoms please see Symptom page link to the left.
Men and boys most commonly experience digestive problems and all the related problems as the number one symptom.
The more common symptoms of male yeast infection are constipation, bad breath, bloating, indigestion, frequent intestinal gas, frequent diarrhea, very loose stools, sexual dysfunction, irratibility and mood swings, fatigue or lack of energy, yellowing of nails (especially on toes) memory loss, jock itch, anal itching, dry itchy flaky skin, athletes feet, baggy eyes, and prostate problems. Symptoms may differ, come and go, and not every person experiences the same symptom.
You may also develop a craving for sweets, pastas, chips, etc. Any of the foods that feed the male yeast infection since the bacterial parasite demands to be fed, and you will more than likely feed it, until you realize you have it, and do something about it.
The Male Yeast Infection Simple Home Test
There is a simple test to see if you have a male yeast infection. The very first thing when you wake up in the morning, before you even get out of bed, spit twice into the glass of water that you left on your nightstand from the night before. Now over the course of the next 15 minutes watch the glass of water. If your spit just kind of dissolves and dissipates in the water, you do not have an infection.
If on the other hand it becomes cloudy, with strings, sinks to the bottom, looks like spider webs, you could possibly have it. If there is sediment in the bottom of the glass after 30 minutes or so then you have parasites also and will have to deal with them first. It will be very noticeable, so don't worry about being unsure if you have it or not. In most cases, you will be able to tell in the first 5 minutes.
Fellas, make sure to keep sugars low, and probiotics are also good. Acidophilis, yogurt, and tea tree oil are all good home remedies.
