"Janet Bostwick" > 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:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Get over it, Julie! Get over yourself! Yeah, we get it. Dump the
> useless memory and get on with your life!
> Janet US

What in the hell is your problem? Other people get into thread drift. Why
can't I? And it seems that everyone is missing the point here. This has
absolutely nothing to do with what I like and dislike and everything to do
with giving bad medical advice. I was not the only one to point out here
that not all yogurt is the same.