Milk kefir is a traditional weaning food in Russia... I think you'd have to use your mama intuition on that, I haven't seen specific research on it.
The reason why healthy bf babies (the norm) are bifidobacterium dominant is that breastmilk has a special kind of lactose that favors its development, in addition to the mammary gland secretion of bifido. Babes do have lactobacillus strains. So it's possible that he is bifido dominent anyways due to what he is eating. Does his stool smell like curried yogurt?
Yes, I have read about "putting probiotics in the other end"
... and also injecting human stool of a healthy person too! There is a clinic in either NZ or AUS that has success with this and colitis/IBD patients. Just how important the gut flora is only beginning to be discovered. But I digress...
I don't think it's determined whether probiotic enemas definitely work, since there is peristalsis to deal with, and in adults large intestines and small intestines are colonized by different probiotic strains (bifido is dominent in large intestine in adults, lactobacillus in small).
Whether probiotics taken by mouth survive to reach the intestines seem to be determined by stomach acid, a growth medium and hardy strains. I have read to have food in the stomach to be a buffer against acid, not take prob. between meals ...and then vice versa, you should take between meals. I seem to be reading with the more researched strains, with food is better. Basically follow manufacturers testing. With babies, they have less stomach acid anyways. And make sure the probiotics are a good quality strain. I agree with CP, get an infant one such as Natren Life Start, Natren Bifido Factor or Pharmax Neonate. The latter two are dairy free.
The reason why healthy bf babies (the norm) are bifidobacterium dominant is that breastmilk has a special kind of lactose that favors its development, in addition to the mammary gland secretion of bifido. Babes do have lactobacillus strains. So it's possible that he is bifido dominent anyways due to what he is eating. Does his stool smell like curried yogurt?
Yes, I have read about "putting probiotics in the other end"
... and also injecting human stool of a healthy person too! There is a clinic in either NZ or AUS that has success with this and colitis/IBD patients. Just how important the gut flora is only beginning to be discovered. But I digress...I don't think it's determined whether probiotic enemas definitely work, since there is peristalsis to deal with, and in adults large intestines and small intestines are colonized by different probiotic strains (bifido is dominent in large intestine in adults, lactobacillus in small).
Whether probiotics taken by mouth survive to reach the intestines seem to be determined by stomach acid, a growth medium and hardy strains. I have read to have food in the stomach to be a buffer against acid, not take prob. between meals ...and then vice versa, you should take between meals. I seem to be reading with the more researched strains, with food is better. Basically follow manufacturers testing. With babies, they have less stomach acid anyways. And make sure the probiotics are a good quality strain. I agree with CP, get an infant one such as Natren Life Start, Natren Bifido Factor or Pharmax Neonate. The latter two are dairy free.
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