Taking Probiotics with Antibiotics or Antimicrobial Herbs

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Should you take probiotics while being treated with antibiotics or antimicrobial herbs? Or should you take probiotics after treatment to “re-seed” or “re-populate” the gut? Let’s dispel a few common misconceptions around these two questions.

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1:00.2	Should you take probiotics along with antibiotics?
1:03.2	Hi, this is Dr. Roushaw, and a common question or concern that patients have is regarding
1:09.0	probiotics and how to use them if they're taking
1:11.3	antibiotics or herbal antimicrobials. And oftentimes what patients ask me are, shouldn't I wait
1:19.5	to take a probiotic until after I've taken an antibiotic or an herbal antimicrobial because
1:26.1	the antibiotic or the herb will just kill the probiotic.
1:30.5	And this is actually not correct.
1:32.8	And there's a few reasons for this.
1:35.3	Now, probably the most clinically relevant is that when we co-administer probiotics along with antibiotics or antimicrobial herbs, it increases the success rate of treatment.
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