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Why should I avoid milk when on antibiotics?
Products high in calcium and magnesium should not be taken at the same time as antibiotics of the tetracycline (tetracycline, doxicycline, etc.) class, and milk should also be avoided with the ...
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How to increase my gut bacteria? Are there any drugs available?
You have no lack of gut bacteria, that much is very safe to say. Everyone has gut bacteria in spades. The gut bacteria that you do have may not be the optimal, but no one even knows what the optimal ...
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Why should I avoid milk when on antibiotics?
This is most commonly a precaution to prevent Mal-absorption. Milk has copious amounts of calcium which bond with the antibiotic in the gut. Once the tetracycline (antibiotic) bonds, it creates a ...
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Can adults get new gut bacteria from external exposure?
In principle: yes, the gut microbiome can be altered by external exposures. It is the large but and a large range of buts that follow.
The newborns indeed get their initial "seeding" by ...
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Increase pre-biotics or reduce FODMAPs can these two postions be reconciled
The question, as I understand it: Should the current recommendations about a low-FODMAP diet, which is also low-prebiotic and thus potentially harmful, be changed?
Short answer: There is some ...
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Why are diagnostics based on the microbiome so slow to adopt?
I've been following microbiomes since they first began to be discussed, and remember the first fecal transplant done for treatment of C. diff. Now it's a common enough treatment. But when an average ...
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Effect of antibiotics on breastfed infant
Breast milk is known to provide many benefits to the newborn and developing infant.
According to 'Bioactive Proteins in Human Milk: Health, Nutrition, and Implications to Infant Formulas.’:
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Effect of antibiotics on breastfed infant
It would appear that breast feeding allows the infant gut flora to rapidly normalize after the course of antibiotics whereas this can be a problem for artificially fed infants who can suffer with post ...
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How do probiotics work?
The internet is overflowing with information regarding probiotics, and since these products are not registered as drugs and are widely sold as nutritional supplements, it might be hard to "separate ...
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No firm evidence for restoration of gut bacteria by probiotics?
Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT
Published: September 6, 2018 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.047
Abstract:
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Can intestinal bacterial overgrowth result in hypophosphatemia?
Chronic small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) can be associated with decreased calcium and vitamin D absorption, which can result in increased parathormone secretion, which can result in ...
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No firm evidence for restoration of gut bacteria by probiotics?
PRESCRIBED PROBIOTICS AND ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA
There seems to be moderate evidence that probiotic supplements can reduce the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
The use of probiotics ...
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What probiotics work for irritable bowel syndrome, according to Genome Medicine?
I have it on good authority that bacillus coagulans and saccharomyces boulardii are effective at combating C. difficile, which is largely responsible for IBS. Here are a couple of citations from ...
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What probiotics work for irritable bowel syndrome, according to Genome Medicine?
Some IBS patients benefit from probiotic supplements. Those with the best efficacy include Align, Culturelle and VSL#3.
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