Posted by Pat B!
on 10/14/2009, 1:41 pm, in reply to "Those are probiotics"
When you're going to be getting an antibiotic (the "you" can be either human or animal) it often helps to start a course of probiotics to help replace the "normal flora" that the antibiotic will destroy. This will help a LOT with the diarrhea that often comes with a course of antibiotics.
Ideally, you begin the probiotic BEFORE the antibiotic. Then - because the antibiotic will kill the microbes (that's its job, after all!) - you alternate probiotic with antibiotic during the entire course of treatment. So - for example - if I'm taking an antibiotic every 8 hours, then I will take a probiotic on "alternate 8 hours", or 4 hours after every antibiotic dose.
This has worked well for me.
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