Is post-infection IBS an appropriate topic here?

[triron]

If so has anyone experience with that?

[mopinko]

1. people are free to share experience and general advice and information. the line it

asking for advice. it is just not safe or productive.
thanks for asking.

i dont have that experience but i have a kid w chron's and i have followed the research into probiotics, and feel that the science is firming up nicely.
i do have fairly severe diverticulitis, tho, and stated taking a good one a few months ago, after a couple months of lingering pain. it has really helped. pain started to recede almost right away, and was gone in a week. then i dropped 10lbs w/o thinking about it, and my cholesterol is almost perfect after being stubbornly high.
i picked one that was labeled as ok for over the counter rx coverage, but not the most expensive. the important thing is to get the most different strains.

i have long been a believer in the hygiene hypothesis. wiping out all "germs" was never a good idea.
my vet has prescribed probiotics many times over the years, but i never really saw results. but i think they were mostly just lactobacillus, and the new ones are many strains. i hope the vet researchers are looking at replacing antibiotics w probiotics as regular practice. i believe this can work.

i also take a fiber supplement. it is pretty cheap therapy. i dont get onboard this stuff often, but i feel like the science here is strong, and my anecdote is right in line w a lot of other data.
but i'm not going to give you any advice. lol.

[Warpy]

2. Just about everybody on high dose or prolonged antibiotics

gets it to one extent or another. The best thing to do is repopulate your gut by eating yogurt with live cultures. Expensive probiotic pills generally contain the same bugs, so if you're bathing in your money vault, go ahead, but Dannon will do the trick and it's not expensive.

Obviously, if your stool smells outrageously bad, meaning rotten chicken bad, and/or contains a lot of mucus, you should seek treatment because you might be developing a C. difficile infection.

If it persists for more than a few weeks, consult your doctor, there might be medications that can help. Repopulating your gut with friendly bugs is key, though.