Done with Florastore and Culturelle!

[MamaOnAMission]

I have been trying REALLY HARD to get these probiotics into my girl. I have given small, medium and large amounts of culturelle. This stuff (and other probiotics make her so confused and agitated)

 

And...

 

I (the mom) have been soooo sick with flu for two weeks and was not getting better. It was really weird! Then I thought....hummmm, wonder if this florastore that I started taking could be making me sick. Sure enough, I stopped it and BAM! I was totally better the next day. Out of curiosity...I started the florastore after a week and was back in bed again with flulike symptoms. I did some research and this is a side effect of florastore. Just wanted to share....

[mama2alex]

Wow! Good for you for figuring this out!

[ptcgirl]

That's a bit unnerving.... I wonder if others have the same issue?

[FallingApart]

I gave DD 2 Culturelle yesterday with lunch. We have used CUlturelle off and on depending on which probiotic I have available when it is appropriate to give it to her.

 

She threw up about 4 hours later but I do not believe she is sick. Thanks for this timely post.

 

What probiotic will you give then? We do HLC Chewables, but they are so expensive and I am wondering if we do need to be mixing them up every so often....

[MamaOnAMission]

I tried New Chapter All Flora. I have heard it may be a bit more gentle. Our LLMD said not to give any since we have such a hard time getting them into her.

[dut]

Hi - have you ever done a stool sample to see what bugs she has? I was wondering if this is some kind of horrible herx or maybe as the immune system is so informed by the gut if the change in gut flora is provoking an immune response in some way? dunno... just a thought

 

also have you tried adding fermented foods in at all.. maybe she could tolerate it better if "buffered" in a food... kefir, lassi, sauerkraut etc?

Edited February 3, 2013 by dut

[LNN]

Florostor is Sacc. Boullardis - a strain of yeast. My son can't tolerate it - makes him edgy, angry, impulsive, foggy. Others here have also had negative experiences with Sacc B (tho some feel it works well for them).

 

Not a big fan of Culturelle mostly because it's only one strain of probiotic and it's not refrigerated, so I always wonder how many of the little guys are actually alive by the time it gets home.

 

On the other hand, taking antibiotics without any probiotics seems like a huge invitation for C Diff and other nasty bacteria to move into the neighborhood. Instead of giving up, you may want to visit your local health food store and see what sort of probiotics they have in their refrigerated section or see if they will special order specific brands for you. We use 4 different blends, rotating them thru the week. We use TruFlora twice a week to elbow out yeast, Theralac and two kinds of blends carried by the local store - approx 30 billion CFUs per capsule. Our local library has a book on probiotics - might be worth reading up and the various types and experimenting - maybe on yourself first, since its possible you and your child share a similar gut environment (sharing genetics and diet would increase your chances of having similar gut critters). This is also a helpful site http://probiotic.org/index.htm

[Hopeny]

Our integrative told me not to use Florastor because it contains Inulin, I can't recall the reason but it was related to depressing the immune system, some versions of culturelle have Inulin too

[philamom]

Our integrative told me not to use Florastor because it contains Inulin, I can't recall the reason but it was related to depressing the immune system, some versions of culturelle have Inulin too

Hopeny- I couldn't find it listed in the ingredients of Florastor?? Is it possibly a hidden ingredient in the fructose of the kids version? The adult version doesn't have the fructose in it though. Just curious.