problems with culturelle??

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Not sure if the Culturelle is helping or hurting. I started taking it to

help with chronic diarrhea. I am noticing that I am starting to

" break out " on my chin...which is always an indicator of

worsening dysbiosis for me. My skin has been great for months.

I don't understand what threw things so off for me. I take Oil of

Oregano every night.

Just wondering if Culturelle has caused problems for anyone

else....?

Or could it be that my water filter was due to be changed last

month and I haven't done it yet?

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

> Hi,

> Not sure if the Culturelle is helping or hurting. I started taking

it to

> help with chronic diarrhea. I am noticing that I am starting to

> " break out " on my chin...which is always an indicator of

> worsening dysbiosis for me. My skin has been great for months.

> I don't understand what threw things so off for me. I take Oil of

> Oregano every night.

>

> Just wondering if Culturelle has caused problems for anyone

> else....?

>

> Or could it be that my water filter was due to be changed last

> month and I haven't done it yet?

>

> Thanks,

>

This may not be the reason for your problem, but Culturelle only

contains ONE strain of lactic acid bacteria, whereas your digestive

tract contains approx. 400-500 differnt strains of bacteria. IMO,

it's generally a good idea to supplement with a probiotic that

contains multiple strains - not just one, even though it's a

beneficial strain. There have been some cases of folks taking an

acidophilus product (which Culturelle is) and developing acidosis as

that one strain took over. Usually, these folks are already very sick

or have had intestinal bypass surgery. Nonetheless, I think it much

more effective and safer to use multi-strain probiotics (keep in mind

that intestinal bacteria work *synergistically*). The one I have had

the most success with and that I know has helped a large number of

people and pets (some with astounding results) is Primal Defense.

It's the grandadday of probiotics, IMO. I pay $32 for the powdered

form from iHerb. Another very good one with 5 strains is Custom

Probiotics out of Hawaii. Both of these products not only contain

some of the more acidic acidophilus strains, but also some

bifidobacteria (for the large intestine). Acidophilus predominates in

the small intestine and bifido in the large intestine, which has a

higher pH than the small intestine, so tends to attract bacteria that

are less acid-loving than the acidophilus strains are. With products

like Culturelle, you're basically mainly populating the small

intestine when you don't know if your problem is mainly in that

section of your gut or not.

Suze

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 6/1/2004 10:11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

s.fisher22@... writes:

> Just wondering if Culturelle has caused problems for anyone

> else....?

My son got very behavioral and stimmy on culturelle. This was when he was

four years old. We haven't used it since.