2nd July 2007
A little background -
On May 29th my mother had emergency surgery for a bowel perforation. Part of her intestine pushed up through the hernia, strangulated, and then ruptured. She had 2 feet of her intestine removed.
Of course, due to the bowel perf, she was on broad spectrum antibiotics for 5 days. Once she was moved out of ICU (on day 5 following surgery) she was given 3 more antibiotics though a pic-line for another 9 days.
She has had severe diarriah the past 2 weeks, going about 14-15 times a day.
Three different cultures have been done to test for C-difficle, which all came up negative.
We have purchased Culturelle in hopes that lactobacillus would help her diarriah. She's only had 2 doses and so far, all it has done is make her extremely nauseas.
Does anybody else have any experience with Culturelle? I bought Digestive Advantage for her to try because it doesn't have as much Lactobacillus in it, but I want to make sure we give Culturelle a fair chance to work before taking her off of it.
Any advice would be appreciated...
The only medicine she is currently taking is 12.5 mg Lopressor 2x daily, Protonix 2x daily, Glipizide 1x daily, Vicoden 2 qid PRN, and Allegra. She was also having Arginaid 2x daily until two days ago.
On May 29th my mother had emergency surgery for a bowel perforation. Part of her intestine pushed up through the hernia, strangulated, and then ruptured. She had 2 feet of her intestine removed.
Of course, due to the bowel perf, she was on broad spectrum antibiotics for 5 days. Once she was moved out of ICU (on day 5 following surgery) she was given 3 more antibiotics though a pic-line for another 9 days.
She has had severe diarriah the past 2 weeks, going about 14-15 times a day.
Three different cultures have been done to test for C-difficle, which all came up negative.
We have purchased Culturelle in hopes that lactobacillus would help her diarriah. She's only had 2 doses and so far, all it has done is make her extremely nauseas.
Does anybody else have any experience with Culturelle? I bought Digestive Advantage for her to try because it doesn't have as much Lactobacillus in it, but I want to make sure we give Culturelle a fair chance to work before taking her off of it.
Any advice would be appreciated...
The only medicine she is currently taking is 12.5 mg Lopressor 2x daily, Protonix 2x daily, Glipizide 1x daily, Vicoden 2 qid PRN, and Allegra. She was also having Arginaid 2x daily until two days ago.