Always inform your primary health care provider about any supplements that you will be taking.  Although they may not understand or agree with vitamin and nutritional supplementation, they should be informed.  Most allopathic practitioner may not know or understand the positive effects of Probiotics on the human body system.  So refer them to a source to help them understand why it is necessary for you to include this with your current use of the prescribed antibiotics. 

When should antibiotics be taken?  Antibiotics are effective and should be taken for bacterial infections.  They should be taken for short term treatment use only.  Antibiotics don't work with long term use.

Research has shown that there are no known side effects with taking Probiotics. 

If you are currently taking an antibiotic for a bacterial infection.  Here is the best way to integrate Probiotics into your medical regime.  If you are taking your antibiotic first thing in the morning, take your Probiotics about 2 hours after taking the antibiotic.  Do this for the course of the antibiotic treatment. 

After your round of antibiotic treatment has ended, continue taking the Probiotics by doubling your daily dose for at least 2 weeks.  Regular and continuous use of Probiotics will increase the good/healthy gastrointestinal bacteria in your system thus busting your immunity.  You need the good bacteria to help your system to heal from within and to maintain a strengthened immunity.  You can purchase your NATREN Probiotics >> H E R E.

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NOTE: Antibiotics do not work for Virus or Yeast infections.  Be sure it is a bacterial infection that you are being treated for.

About the author.  After working in her family's generations-old yogurt business, Natasha Trenev turned her efforts toward high-tech research into the health benefits of probiotic cultures.  The founder and president of Natren, Inc., Natasha has been studying the effects of probiotics for over two decades. She helped establish the Probiotic Interest Group of the National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), and she also established a standard for the Natural Products Quality Assurance Alliance (NPQAA) that was read into congressional record.  Her articles on probiotics have appeared in several prestigious medical journals. Currently, Natasha and her family reside in Southern California.  NATREN has set the standards for the probiotics industry.