I agree that natural is the way to go if possible. Meds are simply a treament, they won't stop the fungus or inflamation once treatments end. The natural program that helped me the most with my gut and all over inflamation is written by William Crooke, MD- The Yeast Connection Handbook. I would occasionally have vaginal yeast infections over the years. Diflucan, for vaginal yeast infections worked well. However in the last decade inflamation in my body and in my female private parts didn't test postive to yeast, but the burning inside my skin was miserable. This was complicated by Allergic Contact Dermatis, but I was patch and tested and learned what contacts to avoid, so no more eczema, but the burning inside my skin and female privates continiued.
Crooke was a pioneer in the "leaky gut" theory and scorned. This book written decades ago discusses "leaky gut" believing that the yeast colonies living in our intestines, fed by sugars, discharge their waste though the thinned intestinal membranes and into our blood stream raising our histamine armies which attack this waste trying to destroy it, but the result is elevated inflamation. We all have yeast colonies.
I found The Yeast Connection Handbook, a used copy for 25 cents. It was touted as treatment for vaious diseases on the book cover. This book is still available on line. Simple hand drawn diagrams will help you understand the process of the living yeast sending messages to the brain demanding food, sugar. His programs details a detox diet, yes, you will go through withdrawal. It was beginning to provide relief after 6 weeks, 2 months were required, but I added another month just to be certain. Don't take this on if you are not determined, yet avoidance of pain is a big motivator for me. I quit all alcohol 2 years before hoping to improve my health. I only missed alcohol for 3 weeks and it's taken years not to miss/crave processed sugar foods. After the months of detox, foods will be reintroduced but processed sugar in any form is not allowed for the rest of your life and sugars in other foods like fruit is limited (at least compared to how much fruit I used to eat). It takes years to no longer care about a processed sugar foods. I'm free of those cravings now because my yeast colonys are greatly diminished, starved out not getting their favorite food- sugar. They are not controlling my brain. I have resumed all my previous foods now 5 years later, however I never eat processed sugar. The difference is dramatic, naturally achieved and cost me no more than the 25 cents spent at a library book sale.