Monday, May 3, 2010
Probiotics good for Celiac
Back in March 2009, I posted about probiotics being a good idea for traveling Celiacs. Now comes Science Daily reporting a study in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology explained in more common terms by Dr. Michelle Sullivan. She recommends a daily probiotic. There doesn't seem to be much downside except the expense, and the upside could be pretty dramatic.
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As far as expense for probiotics goes, here's an idea.
My celiac husband has started drinking Kefir. Previously, although diet controlled his severe and constant intestinal distress, he still had non-formed stools a couple times a day. With the kefir, he has formed stools for the first time in his memory! Strange writing about something like this, but if it might help others with long-term intestinal damage, so be it.
We use yogourmet keifr starter culture and he is able to get probably a month's worth of kefir from each envelope, reusing a bit of the cultured kefir each time to start the next batch. We've been told one can buy a colony of what's called kefir grains which are self sustaining after the first purchase, but we've not invested in such a colony yet. Allegedly the colony kefir has a more rich probiotic culture, with about three times the number of micro-organisms. It's all very interesting to me, but much of the info is anecdotal.
See Dom's kefir pages for a very informational kefir introduction.
http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html
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