A long time patient of mine came in with almost 2 months of constant, daily diarrhea. She described it as severe.
Many times per day.
Two months prior she was put on an antibiotic [Doxycycline] for a chest infection, which caused a drastic change in her gut microbiome.
Most people know by now that antibiotics are nasty. Needed sometimes of course, but really hard on the body.
So, I found some herbs that would work to help her clear up any infections in the guts and sent her on her way.
A few weeks later she had her first normal bowel movements.
Another 3 weeks from that appointment and she was having solid bowel movements for a week.
Needless to say she was very, very happy and described it as a “miracle”.
I then put her on a probiotic regimen we use AFTER somebody has been on antibiotics called Flora Blitz 100. We do this for 3o days along with taking pumpkin puree daily.
Notice how I said AFTER.
This is important.
People should not be trying to take probiotics while they are on an antibiotic.
Think about it.
Antibiotics kill everything. They don’t distinguish between “good” and “bad”.
We want them to kill the bad.
If we continue to pump the body full of more “good”, then the antibiotics have to kill that as well. It’s what they do.
So if you take probiotics WHILE on antibiotics you are effectively using the drug up on the “good”.
Don’t try to paint the barn when a tornado is coming.
If the barn is still standing once the tornado is gone, THEN paint the barn.
Repopulate the gut AFTER you have taken antibiotics.
We get a lot of gastrointestinal problem patients in our office.
More often than not when can help them quite quickly, often in days.