Yogurt for bowel health...

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Hi Everyone,

I was thinking as I read the posts about abdominal distention etc. several

people mentioned constipation. Jonas is nearly 5, and he has never had a single

bout of it. He also is addicted to Yogurt. It is what my family buys to put in

the Easter Egg hunt or for Halloween for him. Because he eats so much yogurt

and also has not ever had constipation I have noticed some articles here and

there about yogurt really helping to keep the bowels working well. I read about

one grown man who had colitis really badly and he ate something like 5

containers of yogurt per day that contain the live active cultures, and he

" cured himself " with it. If some of your kids are having a lot of trouble with

constipation maybe you want to try some yogurt with the live cultures in it for

your kiddo. I mentioned this to the doctor at the Down Syndrome Center at

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh when we were last there and he said that I was

not the first parent to tell him that their child had no constipation and that

the child ate a ton of yogurt in their diet. He said maybe there really was

something to it. Just a suggestion. Of course your child needs to be of an

appropriate age that your doc would recommend yogurt in his/ her diet. Maybe it

is " snake oil " but it may be worth trying. The new yogurt they have out there

is tolerable for even those who hate the stuff, I think.

Barb Martz

Mom to Jonas (MDS) &