[Jayci]

Hi everyone
I've recently been diagnosed with a few allergies and can be found in that section on here.

I am wondering if there could be some link between food allergies and Thrush/Strep B.

Curiousity more than trying to pin it down. I am still suffering these issues however, much less now than in the past.

Janice

[Ashlee T.]

Quite honestly, I've never heard of any relation between allergies and Strep B. With Strep B you're either a carrier or you're not, food allergies won't make it exist or make it not exist. With food allergies involve two sections of your body: immunoglobulin E and the mast cell.

There should be no relation in one issue and the other. Food allergies can cause all sorts of things to happen inside your body. Most likely, once you get a handle on that, the other symptoms will subside. Most people who are strep B carriers don't suffer symptoms from it, but can pass it on to their offspring during vaginal delivery.

[WildChild]

I don't know about strep but thrush, which we call yeast in the US? Yes. Systemic yeast overgrowth can cause a host of problems including leaky gut. Do some research on Candida. Dr. William Crook's book, The Yeast Connection, is a good resource on this

[ItsASecret]

I have studied microbiology for many years and the only relation that could be possible is diet. If you are allergic you may start eating a new food as to prevent another food. A certain food with it's own certain chemistry will change your body's chemistry slightly giving it a possible means for invading pathogens to make you their home. However it is not like, stop eating an apple and eat and orange but suddenly you get an infection. It is major changes, maybe going from a healthy diet of correct foods and portions to massively restricted only eat this that and that from this market. Major changes we are talking that would definitely change the way you are eating. From a purely scientific standpoint an allergy is different from an invading pathogen. They do not use the same immune cells in the same way, there are different chemicals produced in both, and an allergy will reoccur no matter how many times you have been exposed. Invading pathogens like StrebB will cause a reaction because your body sees a foreign object and attacks it, then a memory of that particular strain of StrepB will be noted and you will never be affected by it again. But if you have StrepB at a later date it is a slightly different strain again and the whole infection process will occur again. Allergies do not operate like that, you eat a peanut and it is going to be the same reaction every single time for as long as you know you have the allergy. Yeast, is a bit different. It is possible to have it invade, which is the most common way, but there is also the overgrowth problem as we already have yeast present in our body and we do need it there. A lot of people freak out over the idea that they already have yeast in them but our body needs a bit just for commensal purposes with other microbes. A drastic life altering change in diet is not required, you kill yeast for an hour it will be back the next hour. No matter how hard a person tries to rid themselves of bacteria or level things out the microbes will be back in a very short period of time. Our bodies have learned to just accept that certain microbes are there and if levels change, like being invaded, it will react in an infection manner.