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Can you help me with appropriate protocol for a three-year-old with these results on Doctor’s Data? Gets stomach aches and seems to crave sugary things, though mostly the sweet foods she has access to on a daily basis only contain raw honey or 70 percent dark chocolate. Feel a bit lost with how to help children. Appreciate your guidance.

Chris Kresser:  So she’s got some low levels of Lactobacillus but otherwise really good beneficial bacteria. Some commensal imbalance, normal yeast, just some 1+ for yeast. Basically it doesn’t really look like much is happening there in terms of this gut presentation. The only thing that I can really point to on this test, these test results are, I guess, she’s got maybe mild fungal overgrowth with few on the microscopic yeast. And then a 1+ for lactobacilli.

So I would probably use some A-FNG, which we talked about in the pediatric, in the antifungal, the gut protocol, I would just use maybe one drop for a three-year-old, one drop a day. Maybe two drops a day, and then I would use just a few pellets of Lauricidin two or three times a day, maybe a couple times a day, and then I would also use actually in this case some lactic acid-based probiotics that contain Lactobacillus or if she’s willing to, if she does okay with dairy, she could do kefir or she could do … maybe kefir is not a great idea with the yeast though. So maybe something like Lactobacillus supplement plantarum and acidophilus and things like that. So that’s sometimes all you need to do, and kids, they’re really responsive and they fortunately get better more quickly than adults.

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