Yogurt
Many of our patients believe that yogurt is a good source of “friendly flora” bacteria to help keep digestion and the immune system strong, and to replenish the active colonies after antibiotic treatment has killed them off.

There are two problems with this view. First, few if any commercial yogurt products contain any significant numbers of beneficial bacteria. The reason is that after the yogurt is produced from “active cultures” of bacteria, it is heat treated. This heat destroys almost all of the organisms.

Second, the kinds of yogurt that patients enjoy eating are usually the ones with the fruit preserves in them. That means they are loaded with sugar which is absolutely horrible for the GI tract and the immune system, and can make yeast and fungi grow even more. So in a nutshell, commercial yogurt doesn’t contain the helpful bacteria, but does contain the harmful sugar. Not such a good deal. You can eat plain unsweetened yogurt if you like it, but you’ll have to add powdered acidophilus organisms or the contents of an acidophilus capsule to it in order for it to do you any good
 

Past related article
Probiotics, Infections, and Kids in Day Care
In a study of 18 daycare centres in Helsinki, Finland involving 571 healthy children who were between 1 and 6 years, 282 (mean age 4.6 years) received 260 ml of milk with Lactobacillus GG while 289 control children (mean age 4.4 years) received milk without Lactobacillus GG.

Children in the Lactobacillus group had fewer days of absence from daycare because of illness at 4.9 days compared with 5.8 days in the controls. Read more

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