The Yeast Connection Meets Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis

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To the Editor: We have recently evaluated a two-year-old boy with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis after he was unsuccessfully treated by a proponent of a theory known as the "yeast connection." These physicians believe that the unrecognized presence of candida in the body contributes to a wide range of disorders as general as fatigue and irritability and as specific as schizophrenia and cancer.1 They often treat their patients with oral nystatin and report dramatic success. Our patient's course demonstrates some of the hazards such patients may encounter.The patient's mother first learned of this group of doctors from an article in . . .

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