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My two oldest boys suffered a lot from reflux, food intolerances, and LOTS of vomitting. 🙁

We tried numerous different things and it wasn’t until they were ages 1 and 3 that we starting finding real answers to the root cause of their problems.

Have you tried giving your little one probiotics and/or digestive enzyme supplements?

While a baby is still in the womb, he/she has a sterile digestive system meaning nothing including good or bad bacteria has entered it. As the baby is coming down the birth canal he picks up his first dose of probiotics. Probiotics are the good live bacteria (also referred to as gut flora) that coat, line, and protect the entire digestive tract including the ear, nose, and throat. The second dose and the biggest dose of probiotics the baby will ever receive is from mother’s colostrum.

If a baby is born by c-section and/or is not breast fed they will not receive these probiotics. They will pick up probiotics from physical touch but they will get a slower start and also the kind they will pick up from touch will be a different kind than from the birth canal and the colostrum.

Mother’s type of probiotics that she gives to baby depends on her diet and how well her body is capable of digesting the food she eats. It can also be altered by taking antibiotics.

Antibiotics can not decipher between good and bad bacteria so they kill both. If a mother takes antibiotics while pregnant it will kill and alter her probiotics and up the chance of her baby having digestive problems. If antibiotics are taken while nursing or if they are given directly to babies it will most certainly affect their digestion.

All foods have digestive enzymes in them to aid in breaking down that food into a usable form. When a food is cooked or processed the enzymes in it are. Also our pancreas makes enzymes and puts them into the stomach to aid in digestion when we eat foods that are lacking enzymes. But our pancreas was never meant to make enough enzymes for our American diets of mostly cooked and processed foods. So our pancreas will start to produce less enzymes out of a state of exhaustion.

For some people though it can be inherited to have a pancreas that doesn’t produce enough enzymes. This can sometimes be the reason babies are born with digestive problems.

Proteins are one of the hardest things for a person’s digestive system to break down. So this is often why babies and adults too are diagnosed with a protein intolerance. These problems are rarely the case of being a true allergy because in truth it is just the inability to break down the foods.

When food goes into the upper portion of the stomach, the first thing the stomach does is secrete a little hydrochloric acid (stomach acid). This acid is secreted into the the stomach to activate the enzymes. If there are enzymes in the food and/or enough enzymes from the pancreas there, then all will be well. The stomach will break down the food into a usable form and it will go pass easily into the intestines to be absorbed and used in the body.

But… if the food has no enzymes in it and there isn’t enough enzymes from the pancreas to compensate, then the stomach will excrete a little more acid to try to activate the enzymes. But with little or no enzymes there, the stomach will continue to produce acid. Stomach acid is meant to stay in the stomach, but when there is so much of it, it is forced up the esophagus and down the intestines. This excess acid kills probiotics. And remember that probiotics are the protective coating in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. So when that protective coating is gone it causes irritation, inflamation, burning, pain, and sometimes even bleeding.

I believe that anyone that has digestive problems NEEDS to be taking a good quality probiotic and enzyme supplement. I have know of many children (and adults) including my own that have been greatly helped by taking a probiotic/enzyme supplement.

We take “Digestive Health” sold and made by Core Health Products. I personally feel it is a superior product above others for many reasons. The biggest reason is that I have seen what they have done for my children.

That is fine to ask your pediatrician about the probiotics but don’t be surprised it she doesn’t have a lot of knowledge on them. Most doctors don’t. And they know even less about taking digestive enzymes and they might be against doing it just because of lack of knowledge about porbiotics and enzymes.

I don’t mean to put doctors down for not knowing a lot about probiotics and enzymes. It’s not their fault. They just simply aren’t taught much or anything about them in medical school. They are taught more about how to react to illnesses and what drug to prescribe for what symptom. They really aren’t taught about the root causes of many symptoms nor how to fix or treat that root cause.

I hope though that you have an open minded doctor. 🙂