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care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 73. I'm your co-host

Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And the title of today's episode is,

Don't Go With the Flow,

How Antibiotics Cause Diarrhea and What You Can Do About It.

So we'll be focusing on the use of probiotics

to prevent both antibiotic-associated diarrhea

and also the evidence for probiotics

and preventing Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea.

So we have an elderly lady, an 85-year-old woman, who is filling a prescription for clandemycin,

and that's because she has strep throat. So during this mandatory counseling in Illinois, at least,

she mentions that she's heard horror stories about how antibiotics can cause diarrhea.

And she even had a friend in her bridge club that had recently been hospitalized because of

what she called C-DIF diarrhea. And so really this is the clinical question that you may

have even asked yourself is, can probotics reduce the risk of diarrhea caused by antibiotics?

And if they can, can they reduce the risk of C-dif, Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea caused by

antibiotics?

So I guess the question here is to really delve into and see why antibiotics caused diarrhea, right?

Like, we know probiotics have other proposed use,

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