A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

[MineralMan]

14. No, not comforting, but the human species gets along fine

with most Candida species. This new one, not so much.

As for those drugs, you'll hear about some of the side effects in those ads. They even include lymphomas. All of those are infrequent side effects, although I don't have any information about how rare they are. But all of those drugs suppress the immune system. That's why they work on autoimmune disorders.

As for plaque psoriasis, I had that as a teenager. I had lesions on both inner ankles and on the palm of my right hand at age 16. After a number of different treatments, I simply stopped bothering trying to get rid of them. They even tried radiation and x-ray treatments. When I was 19, the lesions simply disappeared and never returned.

Those new medications would not be my first choice for treating plaque psoriasis, unless there was psoriatic arthritis associated with them. For myself, I wouldn't use them, due to the immune system suppression. However, my lesions were not particularly large or that bothersome, so they were fairly easy to ignore.

I'd have a serious conversation with your son's physician about side effects and risks before jumping on that bandwagon. Weigh the risks against the benefits.

As for CFS and candida, I don't know much about that, really.