Could hidden mold exposure or fungal overgrowth be aggravating your chronic UTI symptoms, even when standard urine cultures come back “negative”? In this episode of the Live UTI Free Podcast, host Melissa (CEO of Live UTI Free) speaks with Dr. Pamela Cipriano, a doctorally-prepared nurse practitioner in Connecticut who practices internal and functional medicine and works with patients experiencing chronic urinary tract infections, chronic bladder pain, mold toxicity, Candida overgrowth, and tick-borne illnesses.

Dr. Cipriano explains why the terms mold and fungi are essentially interchangeable, how mold can affect the immune system and irritate the bladder, and why some people can live in the same environment yet one person gets very sick, and the other feels fine. You’ll also hear her approach to testing when symptoms persist, including why she uses MicroGenDX to look beyond a standard culture for what may be embedded in the bladder wall, plus how she thinks about biofilms as a “hiding place for bacteria, mold, fungus.”

3 things you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why mold and fungi are often used interchangeably, and what “mold toxicity” / mycotoxin illness can look like, from sinus issues to “Candida outbreaks” to urinary symptoms.
  
  
  
• How Dr. Cipriano approaches chronic UTI cases when symptoms persist: MicroGenDX DNA-based testing, plus what she looks for when she suspects bladder wall infection and fungal involvement.
  
  
  
• What might make urinary symptoms flare during treatment, including inflammatory reactions, and why Dr. Cipriano puts so much weight on hydration and anti-inflammatory nutrition.

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