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Warpy

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2. Just about everybody on high dose or prolonged antibiotics
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 11:18 PM
Feb 2020

gets it to one extent or another. The best thing to do is repopulate your gut by eating yogurt with live cultures. Expensive probiotic pills generally contain the same bugs, so if you're bathing in your money vault, go ahead, but Dannon will do the trick and it's not expensive.

Obviously, if your stool smells outrageously bad, meaning rotten chicken bad, and/or contains a lot of mucus, you should seek treatment because you might be developing a C. difficile infection.

If it persists for more than a few weeks, consult your doctor, there might be medications that can help. Repopulating your gut with friendly bugs is key, though.

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