Re: Enzymes, probiotics, bug-killers interfering with each other

[Guest guest]

Stomach acid, digestive enzymes and bile can kill probiotic

strains that aren't enterically coated, or, as in the case of

Ther-Biotic, mixed in with a polysaccharide protective complex.

Enteric-coated (e.g. Pearl) or InTactic-protected (any of Klaire's

Ther-Biotics) probiotics can be taken with or without food, and

with enzymes, as they are specificaly designed to withstand

transit through the " assault " of the stomach and then colonize in

the intestines.

While some strains of probiotics are " hardier " and more

acid-stable, my understanding is that the majority of strains can't

survive in acidic enviroments. When using probiotic products

that do not have any kind of protection (e.g., Culturelle) they

should be taken with food (ideally yogurt, which helps protect the

strains and serves as a food source). By taking these products

with food, you provide some degree of buffer for the probiotics

and increase the pH of the stomach slightly, giving these

microorganisms a better chance of reaching the intestines

where they need to be to colonize.

If you are taking any kind of antibiotic, you can still take probiotics

for their transitory benefits--but you should take them a couple

hours after the antibiotics.

Gaynelle

> I'm sure many of you have run into this issue, but I don't recall

> seeing any discussion of it. I find it having a difficult to optimize

> my child's dosing schedule so that his enzymes, probiotics,

and bug

> killers don't interfere with each other. I get conflicting

> information about whether to give, say, enzymes with

probiotics, what

> to give on a full stomach, what to give on an empty stomach,

etc. Has

> anyone figured this out to their satisfaction? I'm giving my child

> Culturelle, Ther-Biotic, and S. Boulardii (probiotics), pancreatin

> (an enzyme), GSE, MCT oil, Lauricidin, occasionally Flagyl &

Nystatin

> (the bug killers), and of course many vitamin/mineral

supplements.

[Guest guest]

How are you giving the Flagyl?Dose and weigh of child

nne

> I'm sure many of you have run into this issue, but I don't recall

> seeing any discussion of it. I find it having a difficult to

optimize

> my child's dosing schedule so that his enzymes, probiotics, and

bug

> killers don't interfere with each other. I get conflicting

> information about whether to give, say, enzymes with probiotics,

what

> to give on a full stomach, what to give on an empty stomach, etc.

Has

> anyone figured this out to their satisfaction? I'm giving my child

> Culturelle, Ther-Biotic, and S. Boulardii (probiotics), pancreatin

> (an enzyme), GSE, MCT oil, Lauricidin, occasionally Flagyl &

Nystatin

> (the bug killers), and of course many vitamin/mineral supplements.