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: 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. The results: “ Eating yogurt while taking antibiotics did not prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea,” the researchers found. No surprise. However, among those aged 60 and older, yogurt eaters reported less flatulence and abdominal pain than those who got just the antibiotic. Of course, it’s possible that the yogurt eaters felt better because they expected the yogurt to help.