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Please take Staph seriously, it will kill you if you let it. Keep a track of where your skin is red and if it spreads a lot you should go to a hospital and get IV antibiotics. Your doctor can help with all of this but the short of it is, take it seriously.

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Yup. Iv antibiotics are way more tolerable than pills. I was put on three days of morning iv treatment few years ago because of an infection. Iv days were great. I sat in the er for an hour and went to work as normal. Then they switched me to a week of pills ... i barely left the bathroom for 10 days. Do not fear the iv needle.

Depends on what you mean by "tolerable". Oral antibiotics leave you on the toilet because they go to the gut. The method of action doesn't change the systemic affects though.

If anything, oral antibiotics are more tolerated by the body because half of them are eaten by stomach acid. With an IV, you're putting your kidneys to work.

Thanks, I am - after reading this article also ordered "Jarrow Formulas" probiotic with this MB40 strain.

Link?

This medpagetoday article implies that the supplement from SuperSmart was used (from the photo).

I don't see specific mention of MB40 on the packaging, but Walmart sells this for under $20.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfect...

For $16, I'll gamble that it will help.

https://us.supersmart.com/en/shop/immune-system/bacillus-sub...

MedPageToday just looked up any product with B. subtilis in it. There is no reason to believe that the study used this brand, or that this product contains the strain under study.

Looks like we are looking for something containing Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264? I'm not seeing anything with "MB40"

Thanks

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bio-cat-announces-...

That's what MB40 is.

where did you find that? im only seeing jarrow with the DE111 strain

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