Re: Need sound advice, I have to take Amoxil for dentalwork but IBS 'D'
10/17/06 06:05 PM
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Smiling strange - I like that. It fits my strange mouth right now. Yours is a great suggestion about probiotics like Acidophilus--which they also havein the large chain drugstore I just visited. I thought of Acidophilus and the advice I read somewhere to keep taking it for a couple of weeks after stopping (and in my case restarting) antibiotics like Amoxil.
What really struck me though, in the drugstore, was that of course there's something to do when you know ahead of time that a certain course of action--travel, antibiotics, teaching a class, whatever--is going to give you diarrhea. My almost infallible cure is to start taking a preventive dose of Equalactin about 36 hours before the event, and continue through the event, and then taper off after.
That regimen has worked for me for foreign travel, for doing the kind of teaching that is exciting and yet has many unexpected moments, for moving from one place to another. What did NOT work, was substituting polycarbophil citrate (?), the main ingredient, in any form other than the chewable tablets in which Equalactin is produced. It is the only OTC product that I have ever thought was under priced! For what it has done for me it is priceless. Now why didn't I take it this time? I think because I was caught by surprise by the reaction of my gut to Amoxicillin plus occasional course of penicillin plus the month of August.
I hope all goes well at the dentist, Joannelecoq.
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