Hiya.. I stumbled across a site about over-colonisation of Candida in your bowel... It said that it could cause serious disruption in the digestive system, among other things, and also, one of the things it gives you is itchy ears! My doc told me many years ago it was because I insisted on holidaying in the Carribean..
it said that not eating carbs was the quickest way to bring levels back to what is normal for your body... My ears no longer itch...
candida feeds on carbs... Another good reason not to eat them... So many..,
Susi...
Thanks Susikav. It never occurred to me that itchy ears might be a symptom. There actually were a few weeks that my ears were itchy, but it's subsided, perhaps due to the LCHF diet!
I believe you asked if I planned to try another fiber, perhaps acacia. I think for now, I'm going to stick with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and the LCHF diet, and get my colitis back under control. Might try adding L-glutamine, but a bit hesitant about any additional changes for now. The SCD has worked for me in the past, so I think it will this time too.
I watched a few older videos of Elaine Gottschall yesterday on YouTube - (promoter of the SCD; author of Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet). I think she's an amazing woman for what she did for those of us who have Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
She saved her 4 year old daughter from surgery in the 60's. She kept seeing specialists, more than a dozen, until she found the one who provided the diet that completely restored her daughter's health. Then she hit the medical library to learn how food could have made her daughter so ill, then restore her health with only a few changes to her diet.
What she found made her mad. She said milk was identified as making what we now refer to as IBS worse in the 1940's medical literature. Yet few doctors, specialists even, knew this in the 1960's. Her husband wisely encouraged her to go to college and get the education she missed out on when the depression of the 1930's hit.
At age 47, she did just that and spent 13 years there. She learned not just about nutrition but about immuniology and other subjects related to our health. At age 60, left school and began teaching, I believe at a local college. During that time, students approached her for help with their IBS and she helped more than 400 students with the diet. She said 75% were helped.
She could have continued, but at her husband's urging, she wrote a book to reach as many IBS sufferers as she could. She said publishers were hesitant to publish her book because they felt not enough people had the problem. She went on to share that after one appearance alone on an American television show, she sold 23,000 books in one week.
I was saddened to learn that she passed away in 2005, but pleased to see that her work continues through continued printings of her book, her website, and a newer website, SCDLifestyle.com , which I'm just beginning to explore. I listened to one of their podcasts last night. It was excellent!
I'm so glad my gastroenterologist recommended her book to me in 2000.
I have wonderful news. I saw the ophthalmologist today, my eyes are normal. No damage due to the diabetes. Vision's gotten worse, but nothing concerning. Liver okay. Check. Kidney's okay. Check. Eyes okay. Check. Now all I have to worry about is getting my diabetes under control and improving my cardiovascular health. I'm so relieved...happy too!
