Re: Help for my son
Can anyone help? My 9 year old son had to take antibiotics for bad strep throat. I hated to give it to him but didn't know what else to do. He took 5 days of Azithromycin. Well a few days later he started complaining of stomach pain and bad nausea. He had a bit of diarreah, one episode. It has been three days now and he is still has the nausea and stomach pain.
My son has always had a senstitive stomach so I know the antibiotics did a number on him....he has been on them before for strep but never felt bad like this.
Anyway what is the best thing to do? Some people say don't give probiotics, he might have leaky gut and you have to treat that first.
I have no idea if he has leaky gut or anything else.
I have heard of L-glutamine. Should I give him that and probiotics? Any kind in particular? Does it matter?
Any help would be appreciated.
lalobear
Antibiotics kill the flora, which can lead to leaky gut. Taking probiotics can treat leaky gut, it does not make it worse. People mistake leaky gut for having large holes in the gut that allow the bacteria to pass through in to the blood. This is not true:
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1812359#i
In fact, antibiotics never kill all the flora. If the gut was allowing the bacteria to leak in to the bloodstream then it would not matter if you took probiotics or not since the bacteria in the gut already would be going in to the bloodstream. This is not what happens though.
After taking antibiotics it is essential to restore the flora, which among other things prevents leaky gut.
The best way to restore the flora is with cultured foods like kefirs and prebiotics like rice or oat bran, vegetable fibers, gums (xanthan, guar, konjac, etc.) or fibers like inulin.
Cultured foods are more effective than probiotic capsules for several reasons. First, the cultured food provide a wider array of beneficial bacteria. Secondly, they are live, active bacteria. The efficacy of probiotic capsules is often questionable since there is no way to tell how they were stored, how long or if they were shipped in heat.
