I've found numerous references online to a test done for candida (yeast) infection. Spit into a glass of water first thing in the morning. Normal saliva will tend to float, and will not cloud the water. Infected saliva will tend to sink, become cloudy, and leave strings extending through the water. Is there any truth to this test? I have a chronic systemic infection that hasn't been diagnosed in 2 years, docotors just give me more and more antibiotics that do nothing. I tried this test and my saliva sunk like a rock, leaving dozens of thin strings and stringy bits floating in the water, and made a big cloudy pool at the bottom of the glass.
I can just imagine what my doctor will say about this "test".
I've found numerous references online to a test done for candida (yeast) infection. Spit into a glass of water first thing in the morning. Normal saliva will tend to float, and will not cloud the water. Infected saliva will tend to sink, become cloudy, and leave strings extending through the water. Is there any truth to this test? I have a chronic systemic infection that hasn't been diagnosed in 2 years, docotors just give me more and more antibiotics that do nothing. I tried this test and my saliva sunk like a rock, leaving dozens of thin strings and stringy bits floating in the water, and made a big cloudy pool at the bottom of the glass.
I can just imagine what my doctor will say about this "test".
Candida in the mouth has a very easily recognizable appearance. It can be cultured, but this isn't usually necessary. Certainly, if you've been on a variety of antibiotics in an attempt to treat an infection over a prolonged period of time it will increase the chances of a candida infection. Do you have any symptoms that lead you to believe you may have a yeast infection?
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inabadway said:
I can just imagine what my doctor will say about this "test".
That it's [censored]? You're right. Because it is.
Go spit in a glass of water and tell me what it looks like at 5 minutes and at 30 minutes. Mine sinks like a stone with dozens of white strings, and in 30 minutes it leaves a thick white film all over the bottom of the glass. Is that normal?
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Candida in the mouth has a very easily recognizable appearance. It
can be
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cultured, but this isn't usually necessary. Certainly, if you've been on a variety of antibiotics in an attempt to
treat
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an infection over a prolonged period of time it will increase the chances
of a
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candida infection. Do you have any symptoms that lead you to believe you may have a yeast infection?
Chronic watery diarrhea and urinary infection, symptoms in my mouth are migratory glossitis and minor white coating. I'm not concerned about my mouth.
Well, you'd need the help of your physician to determine if yeast has anything to do with your urinary tract symptoms or diarrhea. Of course, many antibiotics can also cause diarrhea directly (without assuming superinfection). I think it's highly likely that many cases of so-called benign migratory glossitis (geographic tongue) are associated with candida, though not invariably; the actual appearance is caused by an irregular sloughing of the filliform papillae of the tongue. The more common appearance of thrush (as you may know by now) is a white deposit (described usually as a "curds and whey" appearance) which is easily scraped from the tissue surface, leaving a glossy and fiery red mucosa underneath. It may burn or itch a bit, but is usually not as painful as it looks.
