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Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I have a question about probiotics.

I just started all of us on this probiotic: Open Original Shared Link I started us on the lowest dose - 2 tablespoons for DH and I, one for the kiddos (I'm breastfeeding, BTW). The boys have known sensitivities to eggs/dairy, and because this particular brand is CF, etc., I thought it would be perfect. ALL of us seem to have gotten gas from it - and not the pleasant-smelling kind, either. :unsure: The boys don't seem to be in any distress, but both of them got pretty loose BMs. Ironically, it was the same color for both of them (my oldest is 3) - a funny yellow color - not the usual yellow BF-baby color for the youngest, and not the usual malabsorption yellow for the oldest. It almost looked like Gulden's mustard.

My question is this - is it normal for probiotics to cause some gas/loose stools at first until things kind of balance out, or is this a problem ?

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These are the ingredients I would question:

Organic Black Cherry Juice Concentrate, Organic Noni, Yucca Schidigera
This is what I found on Yucca Schidigera:

Dissolves out and eliminates intestinal mucus and the wastes on the intestinal lining.

Here: Open Original Shared Link

Maybe that is what is happening, your bowels are being cleansed.

If you do some more studying on Yucca, you will find that it is widely used as an arthritis remedy.

It might be the Noni, too, or the black cherry juice concentrate. Who suggested you take this specific probiotic? It obviously is much more than just a probiotic. Personally, I would be intolerant to all the ingredients other than the probiotic part of it because it would be extremely high in salicylates (I know, not usually a problem with most people).

If you find that the problems don't go away within a week, you may want to consider taking a normal probiotic (making sure it doesn't have whey, or other dairy ingredients, and you might not want maltitol either).

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These are the ingredients I would question: This is what I found on Yucca Schidigera:

Here: Open Original Shared Link

Maybe that is what is happening, your bowels are being cleansed.

If you do some more studying on Yucca, you will find that it is widely used as an arthritis remedy.

It might be the Noni, too, or the black cherry juice concentrate. Who suggested you take this specific probiotic? It obviously is much more than just a probiotic. Personally, I would be intolerant to all the ingredients other than the probiotic part of it because it would be extremely high in salicylates (I know, not usually a problem with most people).

If you find that the problems don't go away within a week, you may want to consider taking a normal probiotic (making sure it doesn't have whey, or other dairy ingredients, and you might not want maltitol either).

Thanks so much for that.

The person who recommended it to me is a member here who has a child with celiac and numerous food sensitivities (many more than my own kids), and she uses it on her DC.

Assuming the problem doesn't go away, do you have any recommendations for a dairy/soy/casein/gluten free probiotic ?

Ursa Major Collaborator
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I use the Genestra brand. It is very expensive, but is the only one I can tolerate. It really has no junk in it, and is hypoallergenic.

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