Any experience with sacch. bouldarii/ B. coagulans in SIBO/IBS?
Trying to plan my way ahead. On tuesday I'll have a breath test for SIBO (doctor only does hydrogen with glucose) and I'm half expecting this test to go off (he additionally told me that he only has seen a positive test once in his life).
I can't take my current situation anymore and need to do something (especially since my harder-stool-flare-up/SIBO changed into dirrhea for 5 days now).
So I'm already thinking ahead on what to do next and two names that come up VERY often when it comes to (at least) protecting/defending the gut lining (especially in the small intestines) are
sacch. bouldarii (that famous anti-dirrhea yeast) and b. coagulans. I don't wanna just drop them both, that'd be excessive and would show me nothing. So I was planning on going with sacch. b. first and coagulans second (sacch would also be my go-to with antibiotics if the test was positive).
Any experience with those probiotics?
I've personally only tried Saccharomyces boulardii and they did nothing for me at all. I've also given them to my son when he had a bad digestive reaction to antibiotics and they did nothing for him either... maybe it's just our family they don't work for though!
I've found this article on our site that mentions them https://irritablebowelsyndrome.net/living/supplements-comorbidities and they seem to work better for Kim.
I hope other community members will chime in soon!
Karina (team member)
Thanks 😀
Yeah, the entire situation is really tricky. We still suffer because for some reason medicine still do extensive gut analysis to see what is overgrowing/missing. It's really annoying. I basically have to take probiotics one after the other on faith and luck (with a doctor's directive would be best case scenario). At this point I'm only getting more desperate with it all and just wanna chug an entire bottle of lactobacilli (wouldn't do that actually but I need to get proactive soon).Yes, I wish there was an easier way to know exactly what is missing or overgrowing in our microbiome. I've seen people online talk about getting your microbiome tested at home, but I'm not sure how helpful that would be when you don't have someone to help you correct it after getting the results.
Karina (team member)
