Re: Systemic Fungal Infections vs MSRA, who treats, should I do something else?

[Guest guest]

, MSRA is a resistent bacterial infection, as opposed to a

fungal infection.

, was your culture done on nasal specimon?

p.s.

I don't know much about culturing techniques but if a culture was

done looking for systemic fungal infection, it would culture a

specimen of your blood, rather than sinus tissue, and may use a

different culture 'medium'(?).

I have not been tested for systemic fungal disease but am trying

to! I am just guessing. My reason is that my symptoms appear when

I add carbs into my diet and disappear when I eliminate them.

Fungal infection flares in high blood sugar environment. Fungal

infections include Candidas, as the most common, and aspergillus,

second most common is aspergillus.

I had nasal specimen cultured for MSRA by Dr Shoe and I don't have

it. I had staph bacteria but they were not MSRA, i.e. were not

resistent to antibiotics.

>

> How do I know the difference between my MSRA

> status vs a systemic fungal or viral infection???

>

[Guest guest]

From what I understand, fungal infections are difficult to culture. My doc

diagnosed me by

clinical presentation (I was a classic case of allergic fungal sinusitis, plus

candida), so it

was straightforward to him. Also, many people have gotten relief from their

asthma with

treatment of the fungal infection.

I hope you can get it under control. Have you considered alternative medicine

and/or

nutritional support? It must be very difficult to be sick like this with

children to take care

of.

Best Wishes,

> >

> > How do I know the difference between my MSRA

> > status vs a systemic fungal or viral infection???

> >

>

[Guest guest]

, I meant to ask about your doctor in private email and sent

it to general mail instead, so if you want to answer privately, send

it back to barb1283 @ .

Anyway, as for herbal antifungals. Yes, I've considered and fooled

around with them a bit. Problem is I don't know how to dose them

and I am so sick. I have my work schedule down to only 16 hours a

week and financially it is killing me, then the herbals are at my

cost and trying a number of them has been expensive, whereas the

Difflucan should be covered. I know sulfur products kill microbes

but I break out into rash every time I take them. I test allergic

to garlic which is high sulfur, but odd thing is I can eat garlic

without any problem. I also test positive to peanut and soy allergy

but can eat both of those without problem. My whole allergy list is

like that, which makes me believe I'm not actually allergic to them

but perhaps an reaction caused by fungal infection, as someone here

has mentioned. I am supposed allergic to almost everything but

rarely sneeze, grass, weeds, trees, dust mites, cat and dog dander,

etc, etc. Allergic to LETTUCE, cabbage, apricots, peaches and

pears, and test is of course LIMITED in scope, so who knows what

else? I took a concentrated garlic product for immune system and

then did break out into rash on both wrists that burned terribly and

took forever to go away. I think perhaps sulfur burn OR allergy to

sulfur or HERX affect. I feel I've been trying the more gentle

approach but I am running into trouble with all these allergies, so

am getting in a hurry. I need to return to fulltime work before I

become impovished by illness. I was perfectly fine health wise

until a doctor gave me a prescription antidepressant drug which

suppressed my immune system (and didn't help me sleep). I told him

I wasn't depressed, just had a lot of stress right then in my life.

(Was Executor of an estate that was being fought over.) I wanted an

sleep aid but doctor wanted me to take the antidepressant. Doctors

LOVE that stuff. I've been sick ever since I took it and I stopped

it two years ago and have been going to one doctor after another and

really asking to be tested for fungal infection early on. I

probably started asking for one two years ago. In the meantime, I

developed small pre stage one cancer that was surgically removed

which has motivated me even more to get my health back, but...these

doctors don't budge until you are dying I'm convinced.

--- In , " kl_clayton " <kl_clayton@...>

wrote:

>

> From what I understand, fungal infections are difficult to

culture. My doc diagnosed me by

> clinical presentation (I was a classic case of allergic fungal

sinusitis, plus candida), so it

> was straightforward to him.