If you're looking for a permanent way to combat candida and your IBS all at one time, you should take a look at the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). On this diet, you only eat specific carbohydrates which lead to intestinal healing and starvation of bacteria (including Candida). This isn't a fad diet, however. Because of the ease with which candida can come back, it will need to become a WOE/WOL. But, as you progress, you can begin adding more things back in.

The theory is in eating only single molecule sugars which require no digestive enzymes. So, your intestines fully digest everything leaving nothing for the bacteria. Also, you'll want to avoid roughage for a while as the bacteria can use this for food as well. Even if the body can't digest something (for example cellulose), the bacteria likely can. Anything that is left to feed the bacteria leads to problems.

For more information, pick up Elaine Gottchall's book <U>Breaking The Viscious Cycle</U> or visit www.scdiet.org. This diet is geared towards people with IBS and other bowel disorders and can help heal candida infections as well as the intestines. You can easily make this diet low-carb simply be reducing the carbs even further than she recommends.

Good luck.