pb4 or anyone else, your expertise please!!!

Hi pb4, can you tell me when is the best time to take the probiotic Reuteri. I put my son on it after reading about it over and over again and I am sure glad I did. He is also taking Aloe vera gel (2onces) with apple juice at night. I just want to make sure that he is getting the maximum effects from the probiotic, the lady at the nature store told me to have him take it with yogurt (fat free activia is the one I use) in order to maximize the good bacterias. What do you think? I know you are pretty good at this and thank God for it. I am trying to control this DD with the lease meds as possible. He is taking Pentasa 2x500mg 4xday, 1x mutivitamin, 1x vitamin B complex, 1x Omega 3,6,9, 2x 300mg Euro Sulfate Ferrous (Iron), 2 onces of Aloe Vera gel, 1 Reuteri probiotic. I also made him take a vitamin C supplement but it seems to upset his stomach, I made sure that I purchased the Ester form of vitamin C, since it is better absorbed and smoother on the stomach. What do you think pb4?

Thanks and Hello to everyone else also. By the way, the GI who is a Crohn's specialist, thinks that I am wasting time and money, since according to him, he should be on 6MP. However, this love potion prescribed by doctor Mom, seems to work for the time being!

Bye for now!

Sad Mom!

Post Edited (Sad Mom!) : 9/19/2007 1:44:50 PM (GMT-6)

I take my primadophilus in the evening, not for any specific reason other then that's what time it was when I got home and took my first one (I like to take things on a 24 hr basis).

It's fine for him to eat yogurt as well, the more the merrier.

I take vitamin C-Calcium Ascorbate, it's much easier on the gut, I've had no problems with it at all.

In my opinion, any good GI will encourage taking probiotics, there's enough research on it to show it benefits both IBDers and IBSers since both tend to have bacterial over-growth issues and there is a huge link to bacteria and IBD (IBS too).

If your son is still experiancing D you might want to add a fibre supplement to his regime, my GI TOLD ME to take it everyday for the rest of my life...starting out small amount is best and only increase if necessary, it may cause bloating and gas but this is a normal adjustment period and happens to healthy people as well, it can be difficult to stick with because of those symptoms but believe me it's so well worth it...the list of benefits I've gotten from fibre supplements is too long to mention right now.

:)

Hi Roni,
Thank you so much for your kind words. No we have not tried any diet except avoiding garlic and onions which seems to bother him. I am trying to keep him on a minimum impact on his life. God knows how much he has been through already and I would trade place with him in a heartbeat if I could. Anyhow, I am just trying to be strong and I am listening to what his gut is telling us and respecting it. He was just Dx in July 2007 so we are still very new at this, but this place is really awsome and the people are just great. I am so gratefull that I have found this site with so many expirience people who are willing to share. I found that this is a place that is soothing for me since I could express my feelings. I will be seeing the doctor in October because I am going towards a depression. I am having a hard time dealing with all this.

Thanks again and keep well!

SadMom,

I hope you will find good probiotics for your son. I do use some of them too, and Elaine Gottschall which is the Mother of the SCD Diet says that there are some probiotics that helps the intestines better than other and some that you absolutely should avoid cause they could make more problems than help. Here are the good ones: Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Streptococcus Thermophilus and Lactobacillus Acidophilus. She says that we have to avoid Bifidobacterium Bifidus, but to be sure, avoid all that has a name with Bifidobacterium first....

At her website, www.scdiet.com you may read a lot of interesting things about how she did her research to help her daughter which had IBD, and how she has helped a lot of people with Crohns all over the world. The diet craves a lot of work from the implicated, but it's a great pay off.

Yoghurt is excellence, the best yoghurt to use is the one you'll read about at Elaines pages, you make it your self at home, and you add probiotics in it as a yoghurt starter. This prosess makes the yoghurt almost lactose free, and it will throughout a fermentation going on for 24 hours be filled with a lot of probiotics! So the home made yoghurt will be a natural immunsystem booster with all it's good and right probiotics. Other yoghurt that u buy in the stores contains a lot of sugar and lactose, and it's better to avoid those stuff.

You don't have to choose to go for all the diet, or maybe chose another diet for your son, but, the yoghurt will be of great help for his health. If you decide to use a common yoghurt for your son....maybe u could find one without sugar and with some good probiotic strains.

I have bought a yoghurtmachine, I make my own yoghurt and it's really delicious! I add blueberrys and ripe banana, and it's tasting sweet - really yummy

With all the best to you and your son,

From Ingrid in Norway