27 December, 2005
A number of years ago I contracted Giardia and had explosive diarrhoea for months. I then found that I could control it with large doses of Lactobacillus acidophilus LAFTI strain L10 and Bifidobacterium lactis LAFTI strain B94. After some months of doing this I decided to seek an official diagnosis and cure. Microscopy showed only one Giardia cell on one field of the slide and then only on the second sample, so numbers of Giardia were at least kept down. The “cure” was a course of Flagyl which left me with Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS-D (the diarrhoea form). At least it wasn’t explosive any more. I then combined the two cultures with Hi-maize resistant starch and Raftiline (inulin/Fructo-oligosaccharide). This combination had been shown (at CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition in Adelaide) to boost the numbers of probiotic cells by almost 50-fold and meant that an effect control was able to be produced cost-effectively. Two days after commencing the use of this combination, my IBS was under control and has been ever since.
