You might also want a second opinion on the antibiotics. Many doctors over prescribe them, to the detriment of your body.
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Yes, absolutley. I was on an antiboitic a few years back. The whole time I was taking the antibiotics, I was having monster logs so big, that I would have to use the turd chopper almost every day in order to get them to fit down the toilet. (Story coming soon).
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When my daughter was very sick in Germany, the diet was carrots, mashed taters without butter, and apple juice. She pooped great.

Maybe you should give it a try.

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Watch the antibiotics. They will give you the squirts something awful. I was on some for a skin infection a few years back and the doctor said I needed to eat yogurt. Unfortunately, this was a year before I discovered organic yogurt (which I eat every day) and the stuff made me gag, so I didn't take it. The probiotics helped a little, except that I reacted to the gelatin capsule, which was full of coconut, and blew up like a balloon. It took nearly a year for my bowels to recover.

Follow Sam's advice. Doctor's overprescribe antibiotics, plus they don't always work. My skin infection remained stubborn after the full course of medication. The thing that got rid of it turned out to be an organic oil mask.

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I do agree that doctors DO overprescribe medicines. Hey, they have to keep the big pharmaceutical companies rich. This is why certain pathogens are developing resistance to antibiotics.

About three years after I was on the antibiotics, I found a great natural antibiotic, Silver. The use of Silver as an antibiotic goes back about 5,000 years, to the Egyptians.

I found this miracle mineral when my diabetic father burned his toe. He was given a silver cream (Silverdine)(pronnounced (silverdean)).

But yes, antiboitics can really fuck up a digestive system. Like TSV said, yougurt is helpful while taking an antibiotic. In my case, I eat lots of organic yougurt. We have a local yougurt company up here in NE (Stoneyfield Farms). The combination of yougurt and vitamin C may have been what spared me from diarreah. I also did a cleanse after I got off the antibiotics.

To sum it up, be ware of excessive antibiotics.
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I second the recommendation of yogurt for what ails you. In the last three years, I had two very minor surgeries, but the anesthetic did bung me up. I've also taken a couple courses of antibiotics in recent years for minor things, and I recall that I was finally able to restore my system to normal functioning with yogurt.

Try Activia.

Here are sources of good bacteria:

Genuine saurkraut and old fashioned dill pickles. These have lactobacteria, which are probiotic. Go to a Jewish, Polish or Russian delicatessen or, failing that, find an expensive health food store.

Miso soup. You can buy miso paste at a grocery store and just eat a tablespoon at a time or stir it into some hot water. Never boil miso in water--the temp will be too high and that will nuke the good bacteria. But its OK to pour some boiling water over it, stir it around and then drink it. If you like garlic, squash some in.

Yogurt---try a good brand like Brown Cow, Nancy's or Pavel's. I like to buy mine plain and stir in a bit of vanilla extract. You can use either sugar or your own choice of artificial sweetner and it will taste much better than pre-flavored yogurt from the store.

Putting yogurt in a blender with some straw berries, or rasperries is terrific. Or toss in a bit of banana and squeeze in some orange juice and puree.

and--if you can handle hot spices:

Korean Kim Chi--pickled cabbage with red chili

I got sick twice this year and had to take an antibiotic both times. But it didnt screw up my poop--and I usually have a sensitive gut.

I took miso soup nearly every day during my two illnesses and had some yogurt, too. I wasnt trying to prevent gut problems--the miso warmed me up and settled my tum.

So perhaps the stuff offset the effect of the antibiotic.

What I used was something hard to find--Hatcho miso. It's chocolate colored, and you may need to go to your Japanese neighborhood to get it.

The darker the miso, the more it warms you up. In Japan and China, they eat dark miso in winter time and use the lighter colored misos for summer cooking--learned this from my practitioner of Chinese medicine.

Miso is a nice source of mineral salts--very helpful if you are running a fever. Mix 1/2 to one tablespoon ful into a cup of hot water and you have a very nice and nourishing broth.

Or Lucerne yogurt, the Safeway brand for cheap bastards like me.

I've read alot about Silver. It's a special kind to use, I believe, and cannot remember the type. Colloidal or something?

Anyhoo, I'm tempted to order some for my gramma. I've even read it has helped fight Cancer, but who's to say.

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Mary Mary swears by the Colloidal (or whatever) Silver. It does not do shit for me.
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Yeah Daphne, silver is great. If you are trying to help someone overcome cancer, Cesium will be a big help.
www.rainbowminerals.net/Minerals/cesium.html

I hope that link will be helpful.

Oh, one other thing that will help an antibiotic ravaged tummy is Kefir.
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I forgot to mention Kefir when I mentioned yogurt. Thanks for the reminder, healthy 1. Kefir is similar to a thick, pourable, liquid yogurt and has a pleasant tart flavor in several varieties.

I'd definitely advise caution with the antibiotics too. I had a kidney infection this summer and took some very strong antibiotics to wipe it out. I didn't shit for 5 days, then my poops were so hard and large I was worried I may have to practice manual disimpaction! EW! EW!! They wipe out EVERYTHING - including your good resident bacteria. I ate yogurt for a few weeks to restore my "flora" (and frequented Taco Bell on the way home from work!). I've also heard good things about Kefir, but am too chicken to try it.

TSV- Probiotics have coconut in the capsule??? Thanks for the info - I absolutely CANNOT have coconut either. I'll remember that for sure!

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I once had a barium swallow test and I pooped radioactive day-glo green for a day or two. You know that pale-white-green color of kids' glow in the dark toys? That was my poop. I wish I had taken a picture. AND the doctor didn't warn me. I was sitting on the bowl later that day, glanced down and had the poop scared out of me, so to speak.

Antibiotics are real nasty buggers. If you want your poops to come out a little softer, eat some of your favorite mashed foods.

Examples:

mashed potatos
apple sauce
my moms nasty cheese chicken cream o' mushroom cuncoction

anything works.

Thank you healthy1.

I think I've seen that cream soup, cheese chicken recipe in woman's magazines, log. I have used cream of mushroom soup for pork chops, and the family likes that; but when it comes to chicken, dredging in flour, cooking in oil with sautee'd onions, and covering tightly with a lid seems to make such a rich gravy that the cream of mushroom soup isn't even necessary.

I like to put some sake in it and a bit of tarragon at the last minute. And no one shits their pants.....

And I just thought of something else a hospital gave me when I had Thing One and was readmitted for severe tearing to help me poop - this bread called volkenbrot. Something like brown whole wheat bread, heavy as a brick, and full of seeds and lawn clippings. But man, it did the trick. Fiber-O-Rama.

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Kefir is the same as plain yougurt. It just a Russian version.

Please, please, please stay aware of any changes in your poop while taking antibiotics (and after treatment is finished)! It was already said that antibiotics wipe out the good bacteria with the bad, and unfortunately, I can relate all too well with that. I was on antibiotics for strep throat and ended up going to the ER two days after finishing the treatment. They admitted me to the hospital, and I was transferred to ICU the next day. I had a very severe case of pseudomembranous colitis caused by the overgrowth of Clostridium difficile and am lucky to still have my colon. My hospital stay was 16 nights, and I want to shout out to the world that antibiotics have the potential to be very dangerous to save other people from the misery I went (and still am going) through because of antibiotics.