Please help: Probiotics

I used to take Probiotics all the time and they seemed to help. I have since come across some info that says pple that are immune compromised should STAY AWAY from them as they can cause serious bacterial and blood infections. ie SEPSIS.

My question is are we considered immune compromised just having UC?? Or being pregnant?

I really would like to start taking them again but I am scared now.

KrissyUC said...
I used to take Probiotics all the time and they seemed to help. I have since come across some info that says pple that are immune compromised should STAY AWAY from them as they can cause serious bacterial and blood infections. ie SEPSIS.

What info? Where?

Krissy: I couldn't tell from your post if you stopped probiotics and then found that info or it you stopped probiotics because of the info. I'm not a doctor or any kind of medical scientist but to me that just doesn't sound right. Most all probiotics you would take by either eating or in supplement form would be the so called "good" probiotics that would help keep bad bacteria in check and it is the bad bacteria that could possibly go septic. My thought here is that someone was taking probiotics, they didn't do well enough to keep the bad bacteria in check (which can happen to anyone), and then that bad bacteria went on to cause problems. If that were the case then technically those probiotics weren't responsible at all for the event. They just weren't good enough to stop the event.

If you google it you will find lots of the same info I am talking about...I even checked on my sons bottle of probiotics and it says the same thing- do not use if your immune compromised.

There are different probiotics, but vsl and mutaflor have been medically trialled on people with uc and the results were good, so i think that at least these two will not do any harm even if they don't help