To whom it may interest:
I have experienced dramatic improvement of all my symptoms (including chronic diarrhea, digestive pains, digestive tract swelling, weight loss, chronic fatigue, circulatory problems, multiple allergies, concentration problems, ear problems, etc) for three months now. I stopped using dishes washed in a dishwasher, what I had done for the last 30 years.
I realized of it due to a long journey in which I seldom ate in restaurants, much more buying things in supermarkets.
I think dishwasher soap residues may act as a potent fertilizer to candida in the intestine. Dishwashed dishes may also be polluted with rubber residues from the machine (note the usual rubber smell when opening the machine door just after it is finished). These rubber residues may very well act as an irritant, bolstering the possibly fertilizing effect of soap residues.
I know what I have is candida, it always and only responded to anti-fungal medication, and candida IgG and IgM antibody levels were too high.
I have also realized air pollution is the other decisive factor. There I think it is diesel smoke. Buckyballs contained in smoke can act as a soluble antibiotic. At the same time some other component (possibly gases like NOx) are probably acticng as candida fertilizers (fungi can take nutrients dissoilved in liquids).
It is important avoiding processed food, full of
Antibiotics , food preservers and antioxidants. Many food preservers are in fact substances preventing bacterial growth (therefore much like
Antibiotics ). Sodium bicarbonate can also alter PH levels therefore altering flora (the same way bleach does). Antioxidants are often synthetic forms of vitamin E, which also greatly fuels candida growth. Avoid vitamin E intake.
I keep my dishwasher and clean it all inside it. Later I slightly wash them by hand with a handwashing detergent. I would say the brand of detergent is not critical. Probably the most important thing is to rinse the dish by hand to make sure all detergent and rubber traces are gone. It could be that the mechanical rinse in most dishwashers is not rated clean enough for some persons. Especially those who were born in lead polluted areas or to mothers who smoked or drank during the last part of pregnancy. There is a theory that the immune system of those babies could not mature properly and would keep on producing too many white cells of a certain kind, making them too sensitive to many chemicals. But that's another story.
I guess that dishwasher detergents are highly concentrated to compensate for poor mechanical washing inside a dishwasher. That probably means a lot of those phosphates which behave as fertilizers in the environment. We shouldn't forget fungi are plants and that the intestine is an environment too...
Best to you