Probiotic suggestions please

[dcmom]

We have been doing one culturelle capsule per child everyday. I am interested in what others are doing. My children cannot swallow pills and are picky eaters...

 

If you can suggest a brand, dose, and how you administer- that would be great!

 

Thanx.

[melanie]

We have been doing one culturelle capsule per child everyday. I am interested in what others are doing. My children cannot swallow pills and are picky eaters...

 

If you can suggest a brand, dose, and how you administer- that would be great!

 

Thanx.

 

 

Dr T told me to get florestor I got it at Costco behind the pharmacy area

[GatsMom]

We have been doing one culturelle capsule per child everyday. I am interested in what others are doing. My children cannot swallow pills and are picky eaters...

 

If you can suggest a brand, dose, and how you administer- that would be great!

 

Thanx.

 

 

Dr T told me to get florestor I got it at Costco behind the pharmacy area

 

I have been known to open probiotic capsules and mix into kefir or yogurt. Normally they are taken on an empty stomach but our DAN! said that this was the next best thing.

[fuelforall]

Well, of course you can empty out the contents of a really strong one from Klaire or Rhinebeck Health into something else they drink or eat. They use capsules too.

Then there is Threelac, which blends with water. A citrusy quality. But it's not cheap.

 

Not sure how potent either Culterelle or Florastor are in comparison to the heavy hitters. Many probiotics do not have lactobacillus plantarus and so that requires a separate tablet.

[faith]

Klaire Labs is a good one with about 5 billion cfu's. I use two of them, one called Vita Plex and one is called Botic Complex, or something like that, but both with 5 bil plus and by Klaire Labs, and have several different strains. they are in the refridgerated section of a health food store. not all stores carry them tho. they come in powder or capsule. I open and empty the capsule into a shot glass of Simply Lemonade and stir, it dissolves well. (about $20 for 100 capsules).

 

 

Faith

[EAMom]

my dd likes the Good Belly juices. In ca they have it at whole foods (the quart size). The little (expensive) individual size is at safeway as well.

 

Here's a link where you can get a coupon (buy one, get one free). http://www.goodbelly.com/landing/sanfranci...CFQMsawodCSUczw

[smartyjones]

are there particular strains you think are the most important?

 

what about strep therm. -- do you avoid that?

[LNN]

We use a liquid probiotic from the vitamin shoppe

 

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/brow...AUNE?id=AH-1109.

 

It's a strawberry-banana flavored probiotic (20 Billion per serving) that's the consistency of a dannon drink yogurt. I mix some into my son's strawberry milk and for my daughter, I mix it into a strawberry drink yogurt. $10 per jar and it lasts about 15 days for 2 kids.

 

We tried to empty the powder into foods and drinks, but it doesn't disolve and my kids always swore it changed the taste of things and wouldn't eat whatever I had hidden it in. I even did blind tests. Sure enough, they'd walk away from foods if the powdered probiotics were in there. But they like the liquid stuff. My son took it for a month before he ever knew I was adding it to his milk.

[dut]

Hello

 

I would give Pharmax HLC a try. I think (?) they are the only human strain ones out there. We use their one called... HLC high potency powder - one third teaspoon has 8 billion viable cells. It also has the FOS in it and peachy taste.

 

We open one of the florastor capsules (saccharomyces boulardii - good yeast competes with bad yeast) and put it on a spoon and cover with about one half to one teaspoon of the pharmax stuff and both my picky eater kids will eat it right off the spoon cos the sweet stuff makes the gross cheese stuff, the florastor, falvour not so noticeable.

 

You can order both online I believe. So far (fingers crossed) we haven't had any issues...

[thereishope]

Someone awhile ago posted that you should space out giving a probiotic and the antibiotic. Does anyone know what the timing should be?

[momaine]

We chose Culturelle just becasue that is what Saving Sammy's doctor recommended. It has worked well for my dd.

Angela

[Chemar]

Then there is Threelac, which blends with water. A citrusy quality. But it's not cheap.

 

there have been some concerns about Threelac

here is just one of many sites about this

http://www.holistichelp.net/blog/is-threel...-and-effective/

 

I have always used plain kefir as a probiotic

[Chemar]

Someone awhile ago posted that you should space out giving a probiotic and the antibiotic. Does anyone know what the timing should be?

 

I believe at least 3 hours

[Doug]

We buy( yum yums) at the vitamin cottage my Daughter LOVES them,they are chewable and in the cold section DR T said that they were ok to use.

[dee45]

H,

we use the PEARL probiotic recommended by Dr. Latimer very very tiny to swallow, does not contain strep. thermophilus strain.

 

Deanna