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Any suggestions for timing of dosages to maximize efficacy? Doxycycline, Cefuroxime, Nystatin, Probiotic. I have not found any interaction warnings on these but want to make sure I am not neutralizing the drugs. Do I have to be concerned about the Nystatin killing the effectiveness of the antibiotic or the Flora I'm trying to boost? Should I be taking the abx at different times if one could hinder the other.
I take the probiotic 2 hrs before the abx, 1X per day. Both abx and nystatin 2X per day
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If it were me, I would take the probiotic 2 hours AFTER the antibiotic (or 2 1/2 is even better). The reason is that the antibiotics kill the probiotics in your gut.
So, if you take the probiotics 2 hours after the antibiotic, they will repopulate your gut and won't be killed until the next time you take antibiotics, which will be about 8 hours later.
I would take a probiotic before going to bed so that it has all night to repopulate the gut.
I would take probiotics at least twice per day. Once is not really enough.
No sense killing your probiotics 2 hours after you take them which is what your current method is doing. Just remember, antibiotics kill everything in the gut--everything.
I do not believe nystatin affects the effectiveness of antibiotics at all. Nystatin is not an antibiotic. It helps prevent the growth of yeast.
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