Probiotic Recommendations

[Guest guest]

My 10yo daughter is having a terrible time with her antibiotics. We took her

off the " offending " antibiotic 2 weeks ago and this past Monday began her on a

new med hoping that her intestinal issues would resolve. She did get better but

now after only 1 week on her new antibiotic she is having difficulty again. I'm

wondering if the probiotic I'm giving her may not be good enough. I've been

giving her Garden of Life Primal Defense Kids because it has the probiotic as

well as saccharomyces. I'm using the adult version with great success so far.

Any other recommendations would be very helpful.

[Guest guest]

Garden of Life is a good brand. Maybe she needs to switch brands/strains for a

while? Maybe she's not getting enough probiotics for that particular dose or

frequency of antibiotic? Maybe she is getting the probiotics too close to the

dose of antibiotics (abx), and the abx are killing off the probiotics. To avoid

problems with this, our doc always says to give probiotics about 2-3 hours after

you give the abx.

I don't know if there are any " enteric coated " probiotics safe for children, but

I take these. The enteric coating helps the probiotics to survive stomach acid

and actually make it into the intestines where they really need to get to.

Jarrow makes an enteric coated version called Jarro-dophilus EPS, and so does

NOW Foods called GR8 Dophilus. You can do a search for these on line or maybe

find them in your health food store.

Ask your LLMD for guidance, and report any problems to him/her. Hope this helps

some.

Christa

[ ] Probiotic Recommendations

My 10yo daughter is having a terrible time with her antibiotics. We took her

off the " offending " antibiotic 2 weeks ago and this past Monday began her on a

new med hoping that her intestinal issues would resolve. She did get better but

now after only 1 week on her new antibiotic she is having difficulty again. I'm

wondering if the probiotic I'm giving her may not be good enough. I've been

giving her Garden of Life Primal Defense Kids because it has the probiotic as

well as saccharomyces. I'm using the adult version with great success so far.

Any other recommendations would be very helpful.

[Guest guest]

Hi

for normal people on abx the suggestions that have come through work ok. For

those of us who have difficulty with our gut tolerating abx we need something

much more powerful (and remember, the worst side effect of abx is the

c.difficile infection of the gut which can be fatal, but which is prevented by

good probiotics).

My daughter & I don't tolerate abx well on our gastro system unless we are

taking a very powerful probiotic 2 hours after abx (don't take them at the same

time, it isn't effective). The two that I would recommend a lot are

VSL-3 - very good, but VERY expensive

& my favourite Restore Probiotic

which you can find here

http://shop.restormedicine.com/Restor-Probiotic-Formula-PRO1.htm

I found the restore one to be better, and cheaper, as you only need to take a

tiny bit (both Restore & VSL-3 have 450billion organisms across a number of

different strains).

Hope this helps

Nikki

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> Thank you for those recommendations and questions! I think I will try to

> increase her dose of probiotic and see if that helps. I do give it to her 2-3

> hrs away from abx.

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> From: Christa Sherrod <sncsherrod@...>

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> Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 2:46:20 PM

> Subject: Re: [ ] Probiotic Recommendations

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> Garden of Life is a good brand. Maybe she needs to switch brands/strains for

a

> while? Maybe she's not getting enough probiotics for that particular dose or

> frequency of antibiotic? Maybe she is getting the probiotics too close to the

> dose of antibiotics (abx), and the abx are killing off the probiotics. To

avoid

> problems with this, our doc always says to give probiotics about 2-3 hours

after

> you give the abx.

>

> I don't know if there are any " enteric coated " probiotics safe for children,

but

> I take these. The enteric coating helps the probiotics to survive stomach

acid

> and actually make it into the intestines where they really need to get to.

> Jarrow makes an enteric coated version called Jarro-dophilus EPS, and so does

> NOW Foods called GR8 Dophilus. You can do a search for these on line or maybe

> find them in your health food store.

>

> Ask your LLMD for guidance, and report any problems to him/her. Hope this

helps

> some.

> Christa

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