Title: Heard the advice to eat yogurt when taking antibiotics? | Center for Science in the Public Interest
Headings: Heard the advice to eat yogurt when taking antibiotics?
Heard the advice to eat yogurt when taking antibiotics?
There’s something else that has better evidence.
What’s in yogurt.
The one study came up empty.
What else to take?
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Content: Many people, including doctors, believe that these bacteria also can replenish your gut with healthy bacteria after you take antibiotics. That would make them probiotics. But the evidence suggests otherwise. To be a probiotic and change the balance of microorganisms in the large intestine, bacteria first have to survive the strong acid of the stomach and then the disruptive bile salts of the small intestine in order to reach the large intestine intact. Most bacteria don’t make it through this gauntlet. Unfortunately, that includes the two yogurt bacteria. “ They don’t survive passage through the GI tract, which is essential if they’re going to have a probiotic effect in the large intestine,” says Mary Ellen Sanders, of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics. The one study came up empty. In the only study to look at commercial yogurt in generally healthy people, researchers in the UK gave 118 children and adults strawberry yogurt that contained 1 billion of the yogurt bacteria every day during the week they took an antibiotic and for five days after. Another 120 got just the antibiotic.