Sounds like some good home-made kefir could help restore your balance of 
friendly gut bacteria (pro-biotics). Kefir has 57 strains of friendlies, as 
opposed to good yogurt which only has 3-5.

Be well,
Léna
On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Pat wrote:

> If I've been close to someone who has a gastrointestinal disease, I start 
> dosing myself heavily so I won't come down with it.  If I have an ounce or 
> more of colloidal silver a few times a day, I get a bit of a tummy upset or 
> pain.  Then I wonder if I've caught the disease or if it's from the CS.  The 
> mind can make me so afraid that I feel mild symptoms, but I never actually 
> catch that kind of disease.  
> 
> However, I caught a throat and lung thing from my baby granddaughter recently 
> (she's had so many illnesses which she picked up at day care... she was never 
> sick a day until two days after she started day care at six months.)  Her 
> parents both got it, too.  I held it off from getting full blown for a couple 
> weeks by drinking (swishing the CS/Gatorade mix as long as I could, then 
> swallowing) and nebulizing CS.  I had laryngitis and a little throat 
> discomfort, but didn't really feel too bad.  Finally, I started coughing a 
> lot at night.  The doc said it had been a virus, but was now a bacterial 
> infection in the lungs and one ear.  She said it was going around a lot.  The 
> amoxicillin knocked it out in two days.
> 
> Pat
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