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Have seen several posts lately regarding diarrhea.
Hubby has had success taking s.boulardii in the past -- has taken several diferent brands including Jarrow. He generally takes 1 capsule per day as needed, but has taken 2 or 3 capsules daily for a couple of weeks from time to time. The main side-effect is constipation at too high a dose.
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Thanks, Bea. Based on your post to the thread about how many billions of probiotics we should take, I ordered the S. boulardii online and plan to incorporate it into my regimen that already includes Jarro-dophilus EPS, Udo's Choice Super 8 and Candidase from Enzymedica.
I also drink 3 cups homemade kefir daily.
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I use the Florastor brand of s. boulardii which my LLMD recommended, but a Lyme pal of mine (who had C. Diff prior to Lyme) uses Jarrow and does well, too.
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I take 4 Florastors a day, along with 3 probiotics of various kinds, and Bio K (another probiotic that is kinda like yogurt).
I have C. difficile.
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McCullough MJ, Clemons KV, McCusker JH, Stevens DA.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California 95128, USA.
Saccharomyces boulardii (nom. inval.) has been used for the treatment of several types of diarrhea. Recent studies have confirmed that S. boulardii is effective in the treatment of diarrhea, in particular chronic or recurrent diarrhea, and furthermore that it is a safe and well-tolerated treatment. The aim of the present study was to identify strains of S. boulardii to the species level and assess their virulence in established murine models. Three strains of S. boulardii were obtained from commercially available products in France and Italy. The three S. boulardii strains did not form spores upon repeated testing. Therefore, classical methods used for the identification of Saccharomyces spp. could not be undertaken. Typing by using the restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of the PCR-amplified intergenic transcribed spacer regions (including the 5. 8S ribosomal DNA) showed that the three isolates of S. boulardii were not separable from authentic isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with any of the 10 restriction endonucleases assessed, whereas 9 of the 10 recognized species of Saccharomyces could be differentiated. RFLP analysis of cellular DNA with EcoRI showed that all three strains of S. boulardii had identical patterns and were similar to other authentic S. cerevisiae isolates tested. Therefore, the commercial strains of S. boulardii available to us cannot be genotypically distinguished from S. cerevisiae. Two S. boulardii strains were tested in CD-1 and DBA/2N mouse models of systemic disease and showed intermediate virulence compared with virulent and avirulent strains of S. cerevisiae. The results of the present study show that these S. boulardii strains are asporogenous strains of the species S. cerevisiae, not representatives of a distinct and separate species, and possess moderate virulence in murine models of systemic infection. Therefore, caution should be advised in the clinical use of these strains in immunocompromised patients until further study is undertaken.
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So, is this stuff safe for people with yeast issues already?
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