Mike -- your comment (below) caught me up!  My Mom just got out of the hospital from a bowel obstruction, which cleared itself after a few days.  Preceding the obstruction, for the past couple months, has been very loud ongoing stomach gurgling.  I just remembered that she was on antibiotics this past August for a bladder infection.  Now I'm wondering if either of these conditions could be related to loss of beneficial gut flora.  If so -- what probiotics would be best, and fastest, for an 87-year-old do you think?
MA
 
 
-------------- Original message from "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]>: -------------- 
 
> If he's had antibiotics -- ever! -- then the probiotics are probably
> called for.