Appropriate protocol for a three-year-old with the following results, which I’ll go through. On Doctor’s Data symptoms are stomach aches and crave sweet foods. Although mostly the sweet food she has access to contains only raw honey and/or 70 percent-plus dark chocolate. Sometimes had access to foods containing unrefined sugars like rapadura. I feel a bit lost generally how to help children. Appreciate your guidance.

Chris Kresser:  So the Doctor’s Data, she’s pretty good about beneficial bacteria with the exception of the 1+ for Lactobacillus, in the commensal column had 2+ for alpha-hemolytic strep, 1+ for staph. In yeast she had 1+ for normal candida and rhodotorula, and then microscopic yeast had few. And then on the three-day samples had few yeast one day and then rare the other.

So yeah, in this, the only thing that’s really notable here is low levels of Lactobacillus and then fungal overgrowth, mild fungal overgrowth. So in this case you could just use probably a very low dose, like even one to two drops a day, of the A-FNG, and you could also use probiotics. So the Prescript-Assist and maybe MegaSporeBiotic. And I would just start there. Kids tend to respond really quickly. She’s young and there’s not evidence of a lot of pathogens anyhow. And so I would maybe just use a little bit of antifungal, maybe some, a few Lauricidin pellets along with that and some probiotics and see how that goes. Oftentimes that’ll be enough.

With kids it’s often, pediatrics of course is a whole other thing that we don’t go into a lot of detail on in this course. I’m not a pediatrician and don’t have a ton of experience with pediatrics per se, but I do treat a lot of kids, and it’s often pretty much the same as it is with adults. But lower doses, more cautious approach, shorter treatment protocol, shorter treatment duration, and generally in my experience kids are easier to treat than adults because they respond more quickly and they require less of an intervention.