probiotics how much is enough

[dee45]

How do you know what the correct amount ofprobiotics is?? Anthony takes 1 pearl a day don't know if this is enough??

 

Deanna

[sf_mom]

My son takes 1.5 trillion units per day. Pearls are 5 billion units. Big difference put I feel very strongly this has helped our recovery process tremendously. We are being guided by a nutritionist that is very verse in the use of high dose probiotics and we have had no ill effects and only benefits.

 

http://www.customprobiotics.com/custom-pro...ix-cultures.htm

 

-Wendy

Edited May 27, 2010 by SF Mom

[dee45]

Do you think I could at least give it twice a day??

 

Deanna

[MomWithOCDSon]

While we're not up at SFMom's dosage, we, too, have deliberately upped DS's probiotics unit count over the last couple of months, and it seems to be very beneficial overall, especially with respect to soldiering through the high-dose antibiotics.

 

We give probiotics four times each day: morning, lunch or after school, evening and bedtime. Each dosage is a total of about 65 billion units, a mix of bifo, lacto and sach b.

 

My guess is the Pearls are easy to swallow for kids, and one or two each day might be sufficient for a "normal," healthy person who's not taking antibiotics. But I doubt one or two each day is going to be capable of sufficiently resupplying your son's gut flora.

[sf_mom]

I think you can easily double up on the Pearls. We were actually using them 2x daily prior to working with our current nutritionist.

 

I would NOT recommend anyone going to 1.5 trillion probiotic unit unless they were under the guidance of someone more experienced in probiotics. We really worked towards that number over time and were constantly checking in with our nutritionist. BUT, I do know of several others that comfortable give their kids 200 to 400 billion per day.

 

MomWithOCDSon: So glad to hear your positive response with probiotics. I know its really helped us in the recovery process.

 

-Wendy

[dee45]

ok ladies I promise this is it for the questions? If I give them twice a day what time should I give them-I give the first dose of Augmentin when he gets up this time will be varying soon since school will be out but right now its 7:30 a.m. and the next one 12 hours later. should I give the probiotics both together or give one pearl at one time and the other later--confused about the timing.

 

Deanna

[sf_mom]

I used to give antibiotic in morning and probiotic at lunch/dinner. Now, that we are doing much, much more I split it between morning and evenings along with antibiotics.

 

It is typically recommended to give probiotics at least two hours apart from antibiotic.

 

-Wendy

[dee45]

thanks Wendy

 

Deanna

[trggirl]

I gave one pearl twice daily at least one hour after the Augmentin and we still ended up with Clostridium. In hindsite, I wish we had gotten guidance on going higher.

Edited May 28, 2010 by Trg girl

[dee45]

what were the symptoms of that??

 

Deanna

[trggirl]

She started out with vomiting and high fever, then she had diarrhea. She also had Pseudomonas in her urine.

[Stephanie2]

My boys are both on 400 bill per day (Custom Probiotics). Our DAN practitioner says that going above 500 probably won't do much.

 

Stephanie

 

How do you know what the correct amount ofprobiotics is?? Anthony takes 1 pearl a day don't know if this is enough??

 

Deanna