The use of purged stool specimens or rectal swabs also increases the chance of recovering parasites because they are dislodged from the intestinal wall. A patient may have several negative tests and still have parasites. Intestinal dysbiosis can be treated with a variety of prescription and botanical medicines to rid your body of unfriendly organisms. Your CDSA results include sensitivity testing which indicates which medicines are effective against your particular unfriendly bacteria and yeast. A few supplements you may be taking can be counterproductive to the treatment of dysbiosis and are mentioned here so you can avoid them.
Iron supplements feed unfriendly bacteria and protozoan parasites.
Cysteine, glycine, and glutathione, while important antioxidants, can stimulate the growth of yeast in some patients with candidiasis. If you are taking botanical remedies for dysbiosis, your doctor may tell you to temporarily avoid all antioxidants because botanical medicines kill parasites and bacteria by oxidizing them, and thus, antioxidants reduce the effectiveness of these remedies. 29 Click here for more of Getting to the Root of the Problem . Chaitow, Leon, et al, Probiotics , p. 11. 121 and l27-128.