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Getting mixed messages whether to do probiotics at same time or whether this weakens vanco as it kills the probiotics. Any thoughts?
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Everything I've read says if C. Diff...need probiotics too.
MDRp = multi drug resistant pump. In other words, the pathogens are capable of "spitting out" the drugs so to prevent that we give a healing medicine and another one that prevents the pathogen from spitting it out called a MDR efflux inhibitor.
"Several trials are currently being conducted to develop drugs that can be co-administered with antibiotics to act as inhibitors for the efflux-mediated extrusion of antibiotics.
None of the efflux inhibitors tested is yet in clinical use.
However, some of them are used to determine the efflux prevalence in clinical isolates.
Its shown that Verapamil can inhibit P-glycoprotein mediated efflux which can increase oral absorption of some compounds.
Some chemicals found in plants have potential as reflex pump inhibitors.
Chemicals such as Capsanthin and capsorubin, carotenoids isolated from paprika; the flavonoids, rotenone, chrysin, phloretin and sakuranetin."
Wikipedia.
This is why in medical schools of old, there were adjacent gardens full of plants and herbs. That is where many of our medicines to cure sick people originally came FROM.
If not cured...this is a very unique approach (donation from a spouse) - no joke:
Also Dr H makes his patients go on Florastar (sachorromyces boullardii) 2 caps per day.
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Definitely do probiotics with vanco, but try to space them apart by taking the probiotics either 1-2 hours before the vanco, or 4-5 hours after.
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I had C diff. It put me in intensive care and nearly killed me. I took Bio K plus, culturelle and vanco all at the same time. I believe it was the simultaneous combo of the probiotics and the vanco that saved my life. Jess.
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What is Vanco?
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No flora in gut/extrmemely reduced =
weight loss (pretty extreme and can happen fairly quickly),
passing undigested food,
sometimes nausea too,
extreme depression (neurotransmitters plummet).
The above comes from personal experience - son, likely food poisoning = extreme foul diarrhea followed by appendectomy one week later with abx after = no beneficial bacteria left (stool spec. sent to lab = only a few E. Coli and some yeast remaining). Two months later...20# weight loss and the other symptoms (extreme depression).
LOADING doses of probiotics (Essential Formulas - whole package in one weeks' time) turned him around, but it took nearly 2 years for complete "recovery"...rebalancing.
We need a healthy gut - lots of the "good guys" - to help us absorb nutrients which are used to make OUR proteins, our neurotransmitters, etc.
There is a catch...we need adequate *sodium* in our gut to help us absorb glucose and amino acids from our foods.
Bb likes the sodium (and chloride) channels open. He uses NaCL for motility and the amino acids to make "his" RNA/DNA and cell walls and cell membranes.
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