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Over the years it has been observed many times that antibiotics can bring temporary relief of IBS symptoms. Here is an interesting quote from a recent review of the role of antibiotics in IBS

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However, even when the subjects studied did not have bacterial overgrowth, a randomized control trial of neomycin given for just 10 days showed a transient improvement 1 week after treatment ceased, an effect which was greatest for those whose breath hydrogen fell the most.

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Hmm, that's oddly interesting. Given that the hydrogen breath test is so highly unreliable (often return a false negative result), could it be that the antibiotics are temporary relieving symptoms of SIBO that was thought to be IBS because of a false negative test result? Heather has stated numerous times that IBS is not bacterial related so I would have to believe that these people studied did in fact have SIBO or some sort of bacterial infection, the tests just didn't show it. Who knows it could even be cell wall bacteria (there is no test to determine if you have this other than an autopsy).

Also note that they even state that the improvement was greatest for those whose breath hydrogen fell the most (this indicates to me that they had a bacterial overgrowth to begin with). It sounds to me like they're contradicting themselves - what do you think?

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Jeanette IBS-D, then switched to IBS-A, now stable with Udo's Choice Super Bifido Plus Probiotic

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