I've recently been looking into probiotics to see if it can help ds2 expand his diet without having another flare-up. Probiotics are totally new to me - I just keep hearing about people who have included probiotics in their treatment plans be it for allergies, ibs, or gut healing etc.
So with my limited knowledge I impulsively purchased Culturelle probiotics. Ds2's latest flare-up was just going down when we started on it. After 2 days he had a really intense flare-up - his foot, bum, behind his knee, even a tiny patch on the inside of his elbow came up again and that is usually the last patch to come up (ie things are truly bad by the time that patch shows up).
I caved in and put some Elomet on his bum which looked really bad and knees in the middle of the night, as well as did the whole wash with antiseptic solution, vacuum with HEPA vacuum-cleaner. Another day passed with his patches still looking red and very rashy, but I didn't have to put anymore Elomet, just clean with antiseptic and put some moisturisers on the areas that have formed scabs to reduce the itch.
We have stuck to a pretty strict diet that gave good results in the past 6 weeks, so I was feeling very disheartened. Then I realised I just started giving him the probiotics, my mum made the same connection separately and rang me up to remind me. Last night he was sleeping much better though.
My questions: - could it be the probiotics (i've been lazy with the vacuuming lately, but he had improved even without the vacuuming before)? Is it what they call a healing crisis or just a plain bad reaction (i know i know, that's a million dollar question!!)? Should I continue with the probiotics? Cut the dosage by half? Change the probiotics to another strain/brand?
Thank you. I'm so clueless.
So with my limited knowledge I impulsively purchased Culturelle probiotics. Ds2's latest flare-up was just going down when we started on it. After 2 days he had a really intense flare-up - his foot, bum, behind his knee, even a tiny patch on the inside of his elbow came up again and that is usually the last patch to come up (ie things are truly bad by the time that patch shows up).
I caved in and put some Elomet on his bum which looked really bad and knees in the middle of the night, as well as did the whole wash with antiseptic solution, vacuum with HEPA vacuum-cleaner. Another day passed with his patches still looking red and very rashy, but I didn't have to put anymore Elomet, just clean with antiseptic and put some moisturisers on the areas that have formed scabs to reduce the itch.
We have stuck to a pretty strict diet that gave good results in the past 6 weeks, so I was feeling very disheartened. Then I realised I just started giving him the probiotics, my mum made the same connection separately and rang me up to remind me. Last night he was sleeping much better though.
My questions: - could it be the probiotics (i've been lazy with the vacuuming lately, but he had improved even without the vacuuming before)? Is it what they call a healing crisis or just a plain bad reaction (i know i know, that's a million dollar question!!)? Should I continue with the probiotics? Cut the dosage by half? Change the probiotics to another strain/brand?
Thank you. I'm so clueless.
