Comments on: Drinking to Your Health with Probiotic Yogurt?

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:32:36 +0000

Thank you everybody for your informative responses. I know some of you have suffered for a really long time to finally come up with something that works and on behalf of everyone who’s benefitted from your postings (but maybe didn’t write back) THANK YOU!!! It was a kind gesture that took time and effort and I for one am grateful.

My 49 year old sister has been diagnosed with C Diff and – wow, what a “crappy” type of infection! I am excited to share all of your views on Probiotics and I’m REALLY excited to see how she responds to Lactobacillus GG which seems like the only one that might be effective while she’s currently still taking antibiotics.

Thanks again everyone and I wish you all good health!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:43:13 +0000

I am going to have to remember this part of the post for sure,

“We have shown that simply giving a probiotic drink to elderly patients who are prescribed antibiotics reduces their risk of getting diarrhea,”

This may be able to help my grandparents. Hard subject to talk about but as long as it helps right?

It is hard to believe some of the things that companies like Dannon say when they are doing marketing.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:07:16 +0000

To Phototour.minneapolis,
Thank you so much for your comments and website posting. My mother has had several bouts of C. diff and I started her on Culterelle myself along with the latest dose of antibiotics the doctor prescribed and the diarea has slowed to a minimum in only three days. Amazing. Did you stop giving your mother anti-biotics or would you suggest finishing the month supply and keeping her on the Culterelle of course too? ( I know you can only tell me how you treated your mother and I will also consult with her doctor before doing anything).
Best Regards,
Charlotte

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:44:10 +0000

Now I love probiotics! I had tried Danon Activia when it first came on the market and I didn’t notice anything different and stopped eating. I never had any intestinal issues except for food poisoning and it didn’t help me with that, nor did Danon Dan Activ recently. But I now DO USE probiotics every day as it remarkably makes a difference in my life since I had continual pain since pelvic surgery/hysterectomy. It took me a year to figure this out, but probiotics, have probably restored lactic acid that I was missing. I believe I had pelvic fibromyalgia (something like that) as a huge improvement occurred once I started using an acidophilus pill. Since that I started trying the new yogurts. Yoplait Plus helps and so does Dan Active, both having somewhat different probiotic combinations. Vitamin D3 initially helped, but the lactic acid seems key to improving, sometimes totally eliminating my pelvic/bladder pain. Sauerkraut, fermented cabbage, works also, as long as it’s not pasteurized.

By: Probiotics

Probiotics — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:14:19 +0000

Handle probiotic properly since these living organisms are very sensitive to temperature, light, and pH.

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By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:50:37 +0000

With regard to probiotics, I can truly say that these products work. IN the summer of 2003 I have a number of medical issues that required antibiotic treatment, ever since that summer my digestive tract never functioned correctly. I had constant bouts of constipation, gas and abdominal pain. I continuiously heard of the pro-biotic claims and had taken a lactobasilius acidophilis supplement, but never any other strains. I then began eating 1 6 oz yogurt a day with 5 different strains of bacteria and I kid you not, my digestive issues cleared up completly within 4 days.

I know have no more pain, bloating and gas and feel like a completely different person. Also, because I don;t have the pain, I am eating less (because I don’t feel like I need to eat to move things along) and have lost around 6 pounds. Clearly we have too many chemicals and antibiotics in our world today that kill off our natural flora whihc needs to be replaced. I find these products amazing.

By: Martha McMullin

Martha McMullin — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:56:42 +0000

Two years ago I took my mother out of a nursing home for a variety of reasons. The main reason was a chronic year long intestinal C. difficile infection. It made her weak and literally a bed ridden invalid. That, coupled with her mild alzheimers proved to be more than I could tolerate on my daily visits. She had no strength to even sit up on her own.

C. difficile is spread through spores and requires absolute pristine cleanliness of one’s surroundings and basically isolating patients from each other. This is not the case with most nursing homes or hospitals.

I took on this task of rehabilitating my mother reasoning that I can do a better job. I also researched C. difficile and learned about probiotics after months of reading. Meanwhile as I was educating myself, the medicine for C. difficile was costing me $1300 for a 2 week dose. After a month, the disease came back again. It was a vicious cycle even though I bleached and cleaned and air purified and wore latex gloves.

I also learned that most probiotics get annihilated in the stomach before they even get into the digestive tract to do any good.

Then one day I was reading a forum where a two yr. old boy was so infected with C. difficile that the doctors held out no hope for him. His mother (a doctor herself) read about Lactobacillus GG. The “GG” is very important here because it was developed by two doctors Sherwood Gorbach and Barry Goldin. A site reference here:

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/candida/lgg.html

This is the only probiotic that I found after months of research, does not get destroyed by stomach acids.

To make a long story short, the boy got better and my mom totally recovered within a month. She has been free of this horrible condition for a year and a half. I give her two capsules a week for maintenence and insurance. To emphasize how this probiotic has helped, she is now physically very independent, does not rely on a wheelchair, walker or any other means of support. Even her cognative reasoning has become better because she is not plagued with massive diarrhea every two hours which just drained the life out of her.

Lactobacillus GG is truly a miracle probiotic and would definitely save hospitals and institutions thousands of dollars on pharmaceutical drugs. Yes, all these yogurts are nutritious in their own way, but they do not hold a candle to this powerful probiotic.