Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Dysbiosis and Acacia Gum (Correct Forum?)

This is my first time posting, and I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but there doesn't seem to be a forum for miscellaneous questions... Anyway, first I was diagnosed (without any testing) as having IBS. Then I got tested and was told that the cause was parasites (giardia and cryptosporidium). Antiparasitic medication seemed to help for a while, but then symptoms returned. This time, I tested positive for Toxoplasma, and partly because of extremely low Secretory iGh and general bacterial and fungal overgowth, he gave me a diagnosis of Dysbiosis and prescribed colloidal silver. What I'm specifically wondering about is the prebiotic nature of acacia gum. If the diagnosis is dysbiosis as opposed to candidiasis, couldn't the prebiotic nature acacia make matters worse? My actual experience has been that it is helpful, but I'm supposed to go off PRObiotics while I'm taking the colloidal silver, and I'm wondering whether it also makes sense to go of PREbiotics. Can a prebiotic distinguish between friendly and unfriendly bacteria?

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