"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:24:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "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.
>
> I understood the point you were trying to make - I asked you a
> straightforward question.

No, it was a rather convoluted one. I don't think there was any other food
on the market at that point in time that had probiotics in it. I do like
cottage cheese and I did eat it back then because I did not know that dairy
was causing problems for me. These days you can actually get drinks and
chews and things that have probiotics in them if for some reason you can't
or don't want to take the pills.
>
>> 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.
>
> Most people would have eaten the yogurt whether they liked it or not
> simply because it was good for their gut. The question still stands.
> What would you have agreed to eat for probiotic purposes that was
> commonly available back then?

Again, you missed the point. Yogurt is not in and of itself good for the
gut. Only yogurts with live cultures are good for that. And the kind of
yogurt that most people eat is not that kind. It also doesn't contain
enough probiotics to be very effective so you are far better off to take it
as a supplement. When I began having problems in the hospital, they made me
take a powder form three times a day. It had to be mixed into something. I
mixed it with applesauce and it did make the applesauce pretty gaggy. I
would have much preferred a pill but they had none and I was really
suffering. I won't get into why as that would be TMI.
>
>> 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.
>
> I think the was the end of a long whiney session where she concluded
> you'd have a negative answer for every suggestion and she just wanted
> you out of there.

No. There was no long whiny session at all. I concluded that the nurse was
clueless and I wasn't going to listen to anything else that she had to say.
I had another nurse tell me that diabetics should eat plenty of soup and
fruit. That was just about as useful as telling someone to eat yogurt.