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4 year old severe reacurrent yeast infections in esophagus and digestive track

My 4 year old daughter has multiple chronic conditions she has been sick since birth and I am desparate to find anwsers. She has been diagnosed with eosiniphilc esophagitis, GERD, Asthma, excema, a carnitine defiecency  and an undiagnosed underlying condition. She has had a million tests in her 4.5 years, either normal or a few things off her and there.... Doctors are stumped we are currently waiting for a rhumetology appointment in two weeks. I will list random abnormal test info from the last 4 years that I can think of off the top of my head as well. Its not just my daughter both my boys have very similiar medical conditions and issue my daughter is just worse. I think its something genetic.
One of our current biggest issues is YEAST... Tieler (DD) has a SEVERE reaccurent yeast infection in her esophagus...They can not get rid of it at all. she has had it for over a year she has had 4 endoscopys in one year and they show terrible yeast thats extremly painful to the point were she will not eat solid food she is on and elemental diet due to her EE. She has always had severe reaccurent yeast infections in other places all her life but this one takes the cake. they have tried giving her every kind of yeast med they can and she has been put on 8 prescriptions in a year without any change it is actually getting worse? She also currently has a condition called onochomodemis were her fingernails and toenails are breaking are falling out. Her other medical conditions/ info is below anyone have a kid like this? we don't know what to look at?

Tieler has had:
Eosiniphilc esophagitis
Lactose intolerant
Food allregies:
Anaphylactic: Egg, Peanut, Cashew, Pistachio, treenut, and Milk
Non anaphylactic- IgE: soy, wheat,Oranges, Chicken, Rhye, Oat.
MRI: (at age 3) Normal but delayed brain age (whatever the hell that means?)
Organic acid urin test: elevated glycine?
Carnitine def.
Low birth weight
Low muscle tone walked at 20 mo. sat up alone at 13 mo.
Speech delay
Normal EEG, normal sleep EEG.
Asthma
She gets re accurent infections of: Croup, respitory infections, bladder infections. She has had multiple viral infections your only suppose to get one time like hand foot and mouth (3 times) Rosiloa (5 times) she had a hospitilization for a severe case of
Cdiff and has had pnemonia twice and staph.
She has sever vision issues if her eyes were any worse she would be leagally blind. she wears glasses that help.
She does not sleep she complains of leg and feet pain at night and since birth has been a non sleeper. she has had 3 seizures, but they have no idea what causes them and up till she was 2.5 had a "shutter" that nuerologically could not be explained. it is gone now.
She is at a doctor or specialist once a week I swear! and she has had 5 hospitalizations in four years. We know there is more going on than the stuff we have a diagnoses for but were completely confused about were to go next I havent seen any other kids like her except my other two children. :) someone have ideas?? amyone?

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I'm not medically trained or anything but I do have a God given I guess you could say talent when it comes to medical issues and puzzles and I read a lot of medical journals due to having suck children as well. That being said, I have learned that when a person develops a yeast infection  or a fungal infection of any kind  it is caused by the  an imbalance in the microbiome which is what creates the immune system.  The cause could have been any number of things. The only way I personally believe to get your children well is firs and for formost stop taking them to see conventional medical doctors because they treat symptoms not the root cause of illness. Try to find a naturopathic physician that will use conventional medicine as a last resort. Our bodies are designed to heal themselves. If they are unable to do so it is usually caused by age or an outside source. As far as the fungal or yeast ingestion goes, when a person gets a yeast infection anywhere in their body it often times bounces from one place to the next because it always starts in the stomach, even the type woman get, and there is very few conventional medicine doctors who treat it properly. They tend to treat the area where it shows up when in reality the should be treating the stomach where it began. The spice, cream of  tarter is very good at killing off yeast but you must be cautious because it contains potassium which is one of the few vitamins that can kill a.person from doing. I do not know how much is safe for a child that young to given but an adult or a person weighing 120 pounds or more can take half a Teaspoon resolved in warm water 3 times a day. I am assuming that a 60 lb. Child would be able to take 1/4 tsp. 3× a day and a 30 lb. Child could take 1/8tsp. 3× daily  safely but mind you that is only a logical guess. You would also have to give them probiotics as well and most likely digestive enzymes along with a whole food multivitamin and mineral. I have witnesses this work with my child but she is 19. She was suffering for 6 years prior from similar symptoms and only getting worse until I began studying the microbiome and decided to stop the conventional medicine because it all seamed to start with an ear infection and a perscription of antibiotics then just kept going downhill from there as the diagnosed her with 1 thing after another and made us believe she was terminal. Naturapathic doctors on the other hand treat the whole body and find the root cause. They are also covered by most health insurance  plans including state insurance and can be primary care physicians as well. I hope this was helpful to some degree. Good luck and God bless.
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Hi!
I am so sorry to hear about your daughter. One possibility is that your daughter has multiple endocrine gland involvement. One such possibility is Schmidt's syndrome: adrenal gland failure, hypothyroidism, hypoparathyroidism (parathyroid hormone deficiency), or gonadal failure coexist. Generally this involves a low pituitary gland function in the brain. Also generally where multiple endocrine glands are involved, it could be an autoimmune process. This is the primary hypofunction or decreased function of the gland. This could also explain others in family getting affected. Please discuss this with your doctor and consult an endocrine specialist.
Take care!
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