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Hi,
Don't make the mistake thinking you can get rid of it anyother way than medicine. It is a bug/ infection that requires antibiotics to kill it. Anything else is playing with it or possibly causing more damage. I thought I could starve it out, no luck, just lessened the symptoms a touch. I'd have IBS any day over SIBO, in fact I do, come to think of it!
Just ignore the anecdotal "scientific" evidence often given with the best of intentions. Anything I ingested would blow up the abdomen to the point I could not sit or bend at the waist, just water made no difference it reacted to everything and the pain is excruciating to say the least. As I now have the propensity to fall back into a state of SIBO, due to my particular digestive problems, I keep a course of medication at the ready, any delay and it just gets worse.
Anybody who thinks they cured it by other means didn't have SIBO.
Cheers
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Thanks so much for the information.
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Hi @cheyne - everyone is different. What might be right for one person may not be effective treatment for someone else.
This is the standard Mayo Clinic diagnosis and treatment information for SIBO:
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/small-intestinal-bacterial-overgrowth/diagnosis-treatment/
Antibiotic treatment is the first-line therapy, as you mentioned. The article says, "For most people, the initial way to treat bacterial overgrowth is with antibiotics."
The next step is nutrition support, and it says, "Correcting nutritional deficiencies is a crucial part of treating SIBO, particularly in people with severe weight loss. Malnutrition can be treated, but the damage it causes can't always be reversed."