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Posted Yesterday 4:14 PM (GMT 0)
Morning everyone!

ok so on my protocol, i take xylitol and lactofferin for 8 days straight.. i also take my other meds mon/wed/fri... Some morning i have terrible, gut hurting diarrhea! What gives?? is it the xylitol? am i getting c-diff? Once im done going i feel perfectly fine.. no tummy pains or anything... im baffled! Any insight?
Posted Yesterday 4:25 PM (GMT 0)
I remember reading some people get very bad diarrhea with xylitol. How many days have you taken the xylitol for now? any chance you can stick it out? could you take things like peptobismol or something like that to see if it helps?
Posted Yesterday 4:36 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, xylitol can def do that
Posted Yesterday 4:54 PM (GMT 0)
im on day 5 of it this week... oh im def gonna stick it out.. just sucks having to run to the bathroom at work lol

the weird part is, ive been on it since october... i handled it well in october..... November i had diarrhea once while on it... and now ive had diarrhea 2 times this week so far... just weird i guess
Posted Yesterday 5:10 PM (GMT 0)

physedgirl09 said...
im on day 5 of it this week... oh im def gonna stick it out.. just sucks having to run to the bathroom at work lol

the weird part is, ive been on it since october... i handled it well in october..... November i had diarrhea once while on it... and now ive had diarrhea 2 times this week so far... just weird i guess

Have you been increasing the dose?

It gave me diarrhea too.

So did the Mepron sometimes - so it was a double whammy for me.

As time went on - the diarrhea subsided.
Posted Yesterday 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
Girlie-

I didnt double the dose.. its the same 2 tsp every morning... hopefully it subsides
Posted Yesterday 6:50 PM (GMT 0)
For me it happened once (each time) - I would run to the bathroom...and that would be it. (It didn't continue)

Is it on certain days? and is there anything different you're taking on those days?
Could it be the mepron?
Posted Today 8:10 AM (GMT 0)
Xylitol isn't toxic to humans. It's a sugar alcohol.
It's toxic to dogs though...so don't let your dog ingest it.

It causes diarrhea because it's not fully digested (this is common amongst all sugar alcohols to some degree)
Posted Today 11:43 AM (GMT 0)
I take it too and am familiar with those symptoms. I wonder if splitting the dose am/pm would help. That's how I dose it.
Posted 12/3/2018 9:34 PM (GMT 0)
There are some plausible theories in that opinion piece, but most of it seemed to be blind assertions from the or author mystery "expert opinions". It also throws up red flags when there are numerous grammatical errors and typo's throughout the piece.

I am open to some of the possibilities suggested, but do not find that particular article very convincing.
Posted 12/3/2018 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
Just doing a bit of reading on xylitol - I’m not really seeing a lot on it being harmful...except for the diarrhea it can cause.

It’s in found in fruits and vegetables. (Small amounts)


“Xylitol is a natural substance found in fibrous fruit, and vegetables as well as in corn cobs and various hardwood trees like birch; and is additionally produced naturally in the human body. The body, produces up to 15 g of xylitol each day through normal food digestion processes.”

Okay I lost the link to this article - so can’t paste it here... smile
Posted 12/4/2018 2:48 AM (GMT 0)

1000Daisies said...


I'm okay with being in the minority. I'm old enough to have questioned other things and have been in the minority - only to have the pendulum change in time. Fluoride, mercury light bulbs, etc - I didn't jump on these bandwagons (very minority opinion on those back in the day), and now increasingly more people avoid these over time (I'm not as much in the minority like previously).

Not enough data out there for me to see that xylitol is safe for my family to use, so I avoid it where I can. Having said that, I did try one toothpaste with xylitol once, but it was sourced from birch (not corn) and thus was not gmo.

I also wasn’t on board with fluoride and didn’t allow my son to have his teeth treated with it.


I think it’s been debated long enough here and we really should get back on topic and the OP’s question - re: Is xylitol causing diarrhea. (Not is it toxic or not)
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