Can too many probiotics be harmful?

[Guest guest]

I spoke to our DAN! today, whose opinion I don't often trust, and he

told me that I was giving my son, who has gut issues, " too much "

probiotics. We give him about 300 billion cfus of Klaire's detox

support and about 8 billion cfus of l. acidophilus from Kirkman. He

said there is research that shows that in the first year of life a

child's digestive tract develops what is an optimal amount of flora

for the child, and that by loading later on with so many probiotics,

you can actually cause more harm than good. He said I should be giving

about less than half of what I do. Does this make sense? Has anyone

heard this before? In that first year of life, my thought is that

heavy metals were wreaking havoc with my kid's gut, so how could

anything have developed " optimally " ? - especially his gut flora.

Irene