"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:11:26 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> I once had a nurse tell me to eat yogurt when I had to take antibiotics.
>> When I told her that I hated yogurt, she told me to eat cottage cheese.
>> Clueless!
>
> What could she have suggested that you might have liked?

You totally missed the point. The reason she should have suggested yogurt
was for the lactobacillus, a probiotic that not all yogurt has. To tell
someone merely to eat yogurt was rather shoddy advice. Unless they bought
the plain kind with the live cultures, all they would be doing was making
the problem worse. There are no such probiotics in cottage cheese at all.
So for her to say that is laughable. Clearly she thought that it had just
something to do with eating dairy. It doesn't. This was in the late 80's so
I don't know if probiotic pills were available at that time. Those would
have been even better for use with an antibiotic because to get enough to
counteract an antibiotic, you'd have to eat tons of yogurt.