How to test yourself for a Candida overgrowth
Aug 12, 2020How to test yourself for a Candida overgrowth
Signs and Symptoms of a Candida overgrowth:
- White coating on the tongue
- Allergies to food or the environment
- Anxiety, depression, or other mental illness
- Chronic sinus infections, swollen glands or ear infections
- Excess mucous build-up
- Fatigue or exhaustion
- Gas, bloating, constipation, or other intestinal irritability
- Mental fogginess or blockages
- Nail fungus
- Uncontrollable cravings for sugar
(all things wonderful, really)
A Simple Saliva Test to see if you have a Candida overgrowth?
In clinic we use a variety of either blood or urine tests to measure the levels of Candida in the body, however, you can conduct your own Candida overgrowth test at home with a test called “The Spit Test.” Just follow these three steps for six consecutive days when you first rise in the morning:
- Before brushing your teeth, eating, or drinking, fill a glass halfway with room-temperature water
- Spit a coin-sized amount of saliva into the water and check the water three times over the next 45 minutes
- If your saliva floats at the top, then you do not have Candida overgrowth; if your saliva sinks or grows leg-like structures that reach down into the glass, then you likely have Candida overgrowth.