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Old 04-25-2013, 07:09 PM
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After you've had your colonoscopy and your colon is as clean as a wistle (i.e., all the bacteria has been cleaned out), what do you do to reestablish the bacteria. Some have said they rush out to a restaurant as soon as the colonoscopy is over. How can you digest your food properly without the bacteria? Has that been a problem for anyone?

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P.S. I'm not a colonoscopy person, just asking out of curiosity because I think it's interesting. I read the book, "Should I Be Tested For Cancer?" Maybe Not and Here's Why.
Flushing the bowel does not result in "sterile bowel" which happens after the use of some antibiotics when the good flora is killed along with the enemy bad guys. (bacteria) Then the good flora has to be re-introduced with something that contains it. Usually some strain of lactobacillus like in yogurt.

All this going, this fast and blast.....just gets rid of the food...not the bugs. The good bugs.

It's all good.
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