Dannon Activa for gas and bloating?
#298938 - 02/05/07 08:42 AM
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didi
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Has anyone here tried the Dannon activa (that supposedly helps to promote regularity after 2 weeks) for other IBS symptoms, such as gas and bloating? Please share your stories! Thank you!
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This board is dedicated to the EFI diet. The EFI diet tells you to avoid all dairy. I doubt many people eat dairy here...
Personally, I don't avoid dairy, but don't like activia (too sweet) so I can't say.
--J
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This has come up before -- you might try a board search. But as Jeio said, most of the people here avoid dairy, as the diet instructs.
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IBS-C, D and nausea with acute attacks, stable on EFI for 3 years
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im lactose intollerant as well as IBS, so I did try the Activa with lactaid pills and digestive enzymes, and I liked it. I only tried it for a day though, because I was nervous about the dairy, so I didn't notice any changes. Sorry.
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Adrianna, IBS-D, stable since May 2007, living life to the fullest because of it! 
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My doctor recommended it and it is the only dairy I eat. They have just come out with a fat-free version, which is easier for me and is less sweet. I usually have the vanilla with a few squished blueberries for extra flavor. As long as I start my day with activa yogurt, I am stable. If I skip it one day, then I go back in the cycle of D then C. It takes about a week for you to really see results.
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i used activia for a while until i decided to drastically limit my dairy. activia didn't stop gas or bloating for me, sometimes i wasnt sure if it aggravated me even more. i stopped activia though to follow the EFI diet.
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All it is, is a marketing scheme. It just contains extra bacteria and organisms that is exactly the same as taking a probiotic but with all dairy. Taking a good pro-botic is all you need.
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I eat Silk Live Soy yogurt. It has some of the same benefits WITHOUT the dairy.
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Flipada - IBS-C "It's a gas, gas, gas"
**Lauren**
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I have been making my own soy yogurt for years, using plain Sojasun live soy yogurt and an ordinary electric yogurt maker. That way I have a constant supply of live yogurt and it works out much cheaper than using the shop bought all the time. I also take a probiotic in capsule form.
I wouldn't touch dairy in any form, as I know that it upsets me.
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Yogurt will only give you a rude case of GAS and BLOATING, at the very least. The whole Dannon Yogurt claim to helping IBS is a scam. Probiotics can be very helpful, but dairy yogurt can only make IBS worse.
Kate, IBS-D.
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