Hi irenea8,

I'm not well read on this. What I have read and had confirmed by my functional medicine doc is that there are two categories of treatment: A two-week antibiotic called Xifaxin (Rifaximin, very expensive in the US), and herbal protocols which vary in duration depending on the severity of the overgrowth. I'm doing a three-month herbal protocol that includes multiple herbs, probiotics, gut-healing supplements, digestive enzymes and other supplements to address deficiencies. If that goes well, then another round of different probiotics and treatment for yeast. It's a process!

I'm feeling a lot better and able to resume more full days of being active and engaged and including exercise. It's just my opinion but I think that the herbal process is more likely to succeed in the long term due to allowing time for the gut to heal and probiotics and diet changes to do their thing. I recommend a functional medicine MD (or perhaps integrative medicine) to explore this, my gastroenterologist is not knowledgeable and possibly not fully on board with this diagnosis. I hope that's helpful, Roisin