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Diet during antibiotics for SIBO
Digestive Health | Last Active: Mar 22 8:26am | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
Rifaximin is expensive. My doctor at the time ordered it for me. While I was on it, I started to feel much better. Once off it in about 2 weeks, my symptoms returned. Again, these meds treat the SYMPTOMS, not the CAUSE. Antibiotics are not good for our digestive tract as they kill both the good and bad bacteria. (Don't misunderstand me - antibiotics have their place when it is in the right application.) You need the good bacteria and need it in the right place in the digestive tract. As it was explained to me, the bacteria feed on sugars. We have different bacteria in the upper digestive tract and lower digestive tract. When the upper digestive tract is weakened as in leaky gut, the lower digestive tract bacteria migrate to the upper digestive tract causing symptoms of gas, bloating, not digesting our food well, loosing weight, etc. The goal is to build the upper digestive tract mucous lining and get the bacteria that don't belong there back down to the lower digestive tract where they belong.
I cannot emphasize enough the need to find the CAUSE of your symptoms and NOT treat the SYMPTOMS or the symptoms return.
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They haven't figured out the cause. Dr mark pimental suggests it is caused by food poisoning. Other experts suggest it could be adhesions from abdominal surgery, a bad diet ... and the list goes on. The cause is irrelevant. I'm going on my third round of xifaxin. I'm afraid of neomycin because of hearing loss. SIBO score went down from 71 to 54 after herbals, atrantil, fodzyme, and sporebiotics. Got scared and did two rounds of xifaxin. Score dropped to 49. Apparently archaea hide and since the small intestine is the size of a badminton court there's room. This time I'm dumping the fodzyme. I'm going to eat everything archaea love including polyols like cabbage, apples, etc. Even going to have some beer. When I'm done with the antibiotics I'm going back on the fodzyme and giving up added sugar along with taking ldn, resolor, and ibergast. I understood I could eat sugar because it isn't a polyol but now I learn that sugar produces hydrogen and archaea eat hydrogen if you starve their food. Plus before, during and after I'm taking anti biofilms so the archaea can stop hiding. I'll update where my score is after another 30 days. It is war archaea!!!!!!
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So how is the cause identified?