Probiotic
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Probiotics: Eating Good Bugs
See discussion at Prebiotics -- in short, prebiotics may be safer and more effective -- taking bugs orally may produce systemic infection (some case reports show this) and also stomach acid can neutralize the bugs. These two statements seem contradictory -- don't really have a clear idea how this works, but that seems to be what is in the literature.
Parents on the yahoo short bowel syndrome group have reported that their kids do better on probiotics that do NOT contain bifidobacterium bifidus (or things that start w/bifido), possibly because bifido strains produce more acid.
