Yeast Infection Diagnosis

In order to diagnose a vaginal yeast infection, your doctor will perform a vaginal exam. A swab of vaginal discharge may be taken. Your doctor may also take a urine and blood sample to rule out other possible infections or causes of your symptoms. The doctor may also test assert pressure on your ovaries and uterus to test for tenderness and other possible problems.

Diagnosing Candidiasis is much more difficult, as Candida is naturally present in the body. In order to diagnose Candidiasis, your doctor will likely take stool samples in order to check your stool for Candida. Your doctor will also likely take blood samples in order to test your blood for a concentration of Candida antigens and to test for IgG, IgM, and IgA. High levels of these antibodies in your blood may be indicative of Candidiasis.

Most people are able to identify their symptoms of systemic candida (Candidiasis) . Check out this page for typical Candidiasis symptoms.

If you aren’t sure if you have Candidiasis, an overgrowth of Candida in your system, there is an easy and free test to find out.

Try this simple test, it’s called the Candida “spit test”:

When you get up in the morning, before your brush your teeth, eat or drink anything, fill a glass with bottled water (room temperature). Spit into the glass of water. Leave the glass for 20 minutes or so. When you come back to check it, if you see strings making their way down into the water from the saliva on top, then you have Candidiasis. Also, if your saliva is cloudy, you will see cloudy speckles of saliva than look like they are floating or hanging in the water. In this case, you also have Candidiasis.

If after one hour, the saliva is floating and there are no strings in the water, then your Candida is likely under control.