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Lisa Marie, like other organisms in the body like gut bacteria, the candida is there for a reason to help protect agaisnt pathogens for one. So its not likely anyone could get rid of all of it.

"I don't have much faith in the pill-form pro-biotics"

There are others ways of course and they might help keep things in check.

"""Candida albicans, and other strains of Candida are yeast that normally inhabits our digestive system: the mouth, throat, intestines and genitourinary tract. Candida is a normal part of the bowel flora (the organisms that naturally live inside our intestines, and are not parasitic). It has many functions inside our digestive tract, one of them to recognize and destroy harmful bacteria. Without Candida albicans in our intestines we would be defenseless against many pathogen bacteria. Healthy persons can have millions of Candida albicans."

There is some good and some questionable info here and this was written in 98.

http://www.llli.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVOctNov98p91.html

Hopefully you'll be okay.

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