Any experience with Florastor ?

[plflgood]

Has anybody had any experience with Florastor as a way to normalize the microflora balance in your stomach after antibiotics ? One thing that worries me is that the number of hits for Forastor on Google is relatively small. Is it some kind of murky, far from mainstream medication ?

[girlvet]

Hi again plfgood.  I took Florastor during my battle with C Diff.  From the reading I did on the product it was the most widely studied for use during that particular infection.  Its a yeast product, not a probiotic - and will  survive in the gut during antibiotic treatment (you can take this one while you are taking your antibiotics).  Alot of other products out there as well, and I found my pharmacist most helpful in choosing one.  cdiffsupport.com has alot of information on probiotics as well.

My general opinion, based on my own experience with Florastor, and other case stories that Ive read - is "sometimes helps, cant hurt".  

[plflgood]

> Its a yeast product, not a probiotic

Hi girlvet. Every website says that Florastor IS a probiotic.

[girlvet]

Howdy Plfgood...what I should have typed was that yeast products (Florastor) are live micro-orgamisms, but a yeast is not a bacterium (like accidophillus etc).   You're right tho, they all fall under the probie category - but the studies Ive read seem to indicate a yeast product appears to survive the journey thru the gut, moreso than the others.