Probiotics - Houston,TX

Updated on January 28, 2011
L.A. asks from Houston, TX
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Hello moms,

i am looking for a good probiotic to boost my childs immunity system. I guess that is what it does. she gets sick all the time like every month.please can you please let me know any good probiotics that can be given to her. Also probiotic rich food would help. THANKS.

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D.B.

answers from Boston on

Actually, that's not the best way to do it. Dannon just got in a whole bunch of hot water with the FDA for running commercials that their Activia and DanActive brands boost immunity - they had to stop the commercials and they had to pay a huge fine. They made a ton of money of their products before that, however. Now they are only running commercials with Jamie Lee Curtis saying the products taste good!

You need a comprehensive children's supplement manufactured by a top food science company with proven clinical trials and data. It should be a powder that you mix in liquid, not a pill of any sort. Even pre-mixed liquids degrade over time. The Physician's Desk Reference says that pills are not absorbed. The AMA says that every single person in the US must supplement because our diets are deficient even if we "eat right" - depleted soils, processed foods, pollution, and so on. It's not a single ingredient - that's how people usually treat these things - "Oh, I need more Vitamin C" or "more calcium" - but megadosing with a single nutrient has been debunked as useless at best and sometimes even harmful.

My family has not been sick in 3 years - not a cold, not a flu, nothing. If you'd like more info, let me know. It takes a little education but there are thousands of kids doing better than yours is - you can make yourself and your daughter a lot happier!

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C.P.

answers from Provo on

I go to the health food store and get Primadophius Junior for my son. It does help and he never gets sick. The health food store carries all kinds but the lady in that department told me that this one is good for the whole digestive tract. I also take probiotics and work 8 eight hours a day on the schoolbus with lots of kids and never get sick. I googled probiotics the other day and found out so much interesting stuff that they do and I was really surprised. I wish I would have known about probiotics when my kids were younger.

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L.F.

answers from Medford on

baby jarrow -dophilus, you can get it at any health food store.....you can just sprinkle it on top of food...

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G.G.

answers from Austin on

You don't say the age. If she is old enough to chew a tablet, my kids like Nature's Way Primadolphilus for Kids. It's cherry flavored (Yellow and white bottle). If this is a baby, Jarrow's formula is good and comes in a powder form.

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P.B.

answers from Houston on

Shaklee has one that's AMAZING!!! It's proven/tested beyond imagination and it's a very small round pill that's incredibly easy to swallow - my kids have been taking it since they were 2 and are rarely sick.

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A.D.

answers from New York on

Yogurt is a good food source. We give our son "Culturelle" but have also given him "Florastor" (for kids).

They say it is best to mix with cold drinks/foods, so we usually put it in his drinkable yogurt. The Culturelle has no flavor, which makes it easier... the Florastor was the one recommended by our pediatrician but it has a strong fruity flavor that my son does not like.

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