I was diagnosed with bacterial overgrowth, and to levels the dr said he's never seen before, in BOTH methane and hydrogen which he says isn't anything he's seen before in the levels I had them. So I was taking neomycin for 10 days and just finished that. Feel much better, but not 100%, think I need to try the other one normally used (Xifaxan/Rifaximin) for a week or so. I see the Dr this Thursday to talk about it.thedell19 wrote:Why are you taking an antibiotic?
If you are taking itfor your gut have you tried Xifaxin (sp) which is very good for travelers D, and many other stomach issues.
food reaction times- Maybe Diet help?
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My Dr is trying to help see if there are any reasons why my weight is still down. Overall my stomach is okay and getting better on a GFCF diet- but if there are other foods I am reacting to I would like to know them for sure! But I see your point about maybe the bacteria having a picnic!
Dr Fine test shows positive for gluten and casien but negative for soy, eggs, and yeast
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Do you have to use the lactose for the bacerial overfowth tests? I am lactose intolerant and cant have the casein in milk (protiens). I am definately going to ask my DR about the breathe tests.
Dr Fine test shows positive for gluten and casien but negative for soy, eggs, and yeast
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Yes, I was having a difficult time gaining weight and even during taking the antibiotic I was still not gaining (this is actually one side effect of neomycin) but now that I've stopped I've gained weight again. Bacterial overgrowth can cause a weight loss as it can consume the foods that you should be taking in. Another issue are the toxins that this bacteria releases in the gut and how your body has to deal with them.
What is interesting is that going GFCF would be good for symptoms of bacterial overgrowth, though it wouldn't completely rid you of it. As both foods that contain gluten and casien (sp) have indigestable components that the bacteria can feed on. So limiting these foods would make you have less reactions but the bacterial overgrowth is still there and thus feel a bit better.
No, it's lactulose not lactose for the bacterial overgrowth. One is a milk sugar the other is an indigestable sugar. Though both might cause similar symptoms when you take them but one might be an allergy to the proteins in milk whereas the other is malabsorbtion of sugar only.
Mike
What is interesting is that going GFCF would be good for symptoms of bacterial overgrowth, though it wouldn't completely rid you of it. As both foods that contain gluten and casien (sp) have indigestable components that the bacteria can feed on. So limiting these foods would make you have less reactions but the bacterial overgrowth is still there and thus feel a bit better.
No, it's lactulose not lactose for the bacterial overgrowth. One is a milk sugar the other is an indigestable sugar. Though both might cause similar symptoms when you take them but one might be an allergy to the proteins in milk whereas the other is malabsorbtion of sugar only.
Mike
Oh and here's another kicker, it may in the end turn out that it is the bacterial overgrowth that is the cause of your lactose intolerance and perhaps even the cause of the casein reaction. And once you are treated you may not react anymore to these foods. This is what I'm really hoping for myself.
Mike
Mike
that would be nice if that "kicker" was true.
I am still eating sugars, starch (rice, tapioca etc), that the bad bacrteria can still feed on to stay alive or just be a little bothersome. I will have to explore this more with my DR and see what he has to say. Thanks Mike!
I am still eating sugars, starch (rice, tapioca etc), that the bad bacrteria can still feed on to stay alive or just be a little bothersome. I will have to explore this more with my DR and see what he has to say. Thanks Mike!
Dr Fine test shows positive for gluten and casien but negative for soy, eggs, and yeast
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Hi there,
Once I'd done my best to eliminate all the gluten, etc., that I knew to eliminate, and the diarrhea was gone, I discovered that an accidental ingestion would show up the first full meal after 24 hours from ingestion. Eventually, it became a one time episode of plain diarrhea, and the very next stool would return to normal, and continue normal.
I live in such a controlled eating environment, being a caregiver and rarely eating out and not taking any intentional chances, that any accidental slip-up was very easy to figure out. All I had to do was check the label of any new product, and inevitably, I had missed ONE ingredient that did me in, so out that product would go.
Now, after a few years of being so strict, even after a fairly recent KNOWN accidental ingestion from a salad, I didn't have enough antibodies to have ANY noticeable reaction afterwards. (So happens that I sent my specimen in about a week after that, and the gluten antibody number was only elevated by one at eleven -- about what I'd expect with that small an amount one time.
Not sure whether this is good or bad, not being able to tell now if I've eaten something, but since I pretty much learned what I couldn't eat from when I was reacting early on in dietary treatment, and I don't plan to change anything, I'm not going to worry about possible contamination because it won't be intentional, and I doubt seriously that I am getting any because I'm a veritable "bubble girl" in terms of lack of sources of contamination right now.
From what I read since then, I think there's a tendency for transit times to be related to age, all other things being equal, but they are generally unique to each individual. I'm sure other events such as illness, could change the times for a given individual, so if there are lots of other things going on in ones system, then it might be more difficult to figure out one's "normal" transit time. It sure does make it easier to find culprits if you can get things settled down enough to figure out your transit time.
When I first started out, I was having diarrhea numerous times a day, and no formed stools at all, so there was no way I could've figured it out back then. Kinda think I was just lucky to have figured it out in the first place, to tell you the truth, but it was tested a number of times while I was still eating an occasional thing that I didn't know had gluten in it or other antigens on my list.
Good luck to you, and hope this is just a blip in the radar screen, and that soon you'll be back to normal.
Wish I had time to read the whole list of responses.
Yours, Luce
Once I'd done my best to eliminate all the gluten, etc., that I knew to eliminate, and the diarrhea was gone, I discovered that an accidental ingestion would show up the first full meal after 24 hours from ingestion. Eventually, it became a one time episode of plain diarrhea, and the very next stool would return to normal, and continue normal.
I live in such a controlled eating environment, being a caregiver and rarely eating out and not taking any intentional chances, that any accidental slip-up was very easy to figure out. All I had to do was check the label of any new product, and inevitably, I had missed ONE ingredient that did me in, so out that product would go.
Now, after a few years of being so strict, even after a fairly recent KNOWN accidental ingestion from a salad, I didn't have enough antibodies to have ANY noticeable reaction afterwards. (So happens that I sent my specimen in about a week after that, and the gluten antibody number was only elevated by one at eleven -- about what I'd expect with that small an amount one time.
Not sure whether this is good or bad, not being able to tell now if I've eaten something, but since I pretty much learned what I couldn't eat from when I was reacting early on in dietary treatment, and I don't plan to change anything, I'm not going to worry about possible contamination because it won't be intentional, and I doubt seriously that I am getting any because I'm a veritable "bubble girl" in terms of lack of sources of contamination right now.
From what I read since then, I think there's a tendency for transit times to be related to age, all other things being equal, but they are generally unique to each individual. I'm sure other events such as illness, could change the times for a given individual, so if there are lots of other things going on in ones system, then it might be more difficult to figure out one's "normal" transit time. It sure does make it easier to find culprits if you can get things settled down enough to figure out your transit time.
When I first started out, I was having diarrhea numerous times a day, and no formed stools at all, so there was no way I could've figured it out back then. Kinda think I was just lucky to have figured it out in the first place, to tell you the truth, but it was tested a number of times while I was still eating an occasional thing that I didn't know had gluten in it or other antigens on my list.
Good luck to you, and hope this is just a blip in the radar screen, and that soon you'll be back to normal.
Wish I had time to read the whole list of responses.
Yours, Luce