Re: bad bacteria in the gut...a question please?

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Trish

The tests are done at Great Smokies Lab www.gsdl.com . The comprehensive

digestive stool analysis CDSA tells you level of candida, other parasites,

levels of friendly bacterai, pH and other useful markers.

The lab provide an analysis together with an indication of how well

candida/parasites might respond to various means of treatment.

Treatment depends on what the test results show eg for candida you would use

low yeast/sugar diet, probiotic (eg culturelle or Kirkmans proBio Gold) and

antifungal (eg nystatin). For low levels of lactobacillus you would use a

probiotic supplement.

Based on our CDSA results we treated our sons yeast over a 3 month period

and saw dramatic gains (as big as when we went GFCF). The benefit of the

CDSA is that there are measurable markers you can work on. And then measure

again to see if the markers have improved. Most of the time we have felt

like we were stumbling in the dark on our sons treatment but we found this

test to be very helpful.

Caroline

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Subject: " bad bacteria " in the gut...a question please?

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> Hi all,

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> Sorry to post this to the board, but I am hoping that someone out

> there can help me understand some things better. We have approached

> our dr re: bad bacteria and basically he is not knowledgeable on the

> subject, nor are we, and basically he will not prescribe anything for

> us. I have seen some people posting about tests done regarding the

> lactobacillus etc. Can someone please tell me what tests these are,

> how they are done, what the results say? Also what treatments for

> this have you had done and results?

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