Pamela Levin, R.N., T.S.T.A., 1/27/11

Could finding out if you have a yeast infection (Candida) so you can do something about it actually save your life? Many people - among them health practitioners - think so. Here's why.

Candida is a yeast infection that can occur anywhere in your body - in local tissues such as eyes, mouth, ears, vaginal tract, urethra, prostate, breast -  and also throughout your entire system. If it is systemic, it can cause a variety of symptoms, some of them merely inconvenient, others overwhelming, but all of them baffling.

Finding out if you have such an infection and dealing with it effectively is crucial, and not merely because the symptoms are bothersome. Why is this so?

Put quite simply, many health practitioners consider a yeast infection to be a pre-cancerous condition. Take care of it when it's just a yeast infection, and you can turn things around. But if cancer develops - well, that's another story altogether.

So what to do? First, find out if you have it. You can do this quite simply and easily yourself, and from the comfort of your own home. Here's how:

Do this in the morning, when you first get up, before you brush your teeth, and before have anything to eat or drink, not even water.

Get a clear glass (one you can see through with no color in it).

Fill it with water

Spit in the glass.

If your saliva sinks to the bottom or forms stalagtites or stalagmites (strings in the water) or if it forms globules that are suspended in the water, that's considered positive for yeast.

If none of these things happen, don't move the glass, but recheck for up to an hour. If none of these things has happened after an hour, you're clear.

I recommend that my clients carry out this simple procedure from time to time, making it part of their regular health care routine,the better to nip it in the bud before it has a chance to proliferate.

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