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  4. Have you seen a normal Doctor’s Data stool test and positive SIBO test? If so, is that common? I think it was last week you told someone to run a Doctor’s Data test after 30 days of antimicrobial protocol that was treating SIBO.

Have you seen a normal Doctor’s Data stool test and positive SIBO test? If so, is that common? I think it was last week you told someone to run a Doctor’s Data test after 30 days of antimicrobial protocol that was treating SIBO.

Dr. Amy Nett: Yeah, because I mean they’re, if you think about it, to some extent the anatomy’s separate. I mean it’s continuous, but you have the small intestine and then the colon. So I don’t think that knowing about the presence or absence of one or the other, meaning SIBO or dysbiosis, tells you information about the other. So I have seen a normal stool test in the setting of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and vice versa. I’ve also seen dysbiosis with no small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. And then is it common? That’s a good question. But it’s certainly not uncommon. We have a pretty good mix of people who have SIBO and dysbiosis, people with dysbiosis no SIBO, and people with SIBO no dysbiosis and I think it’s fairly even among those categories. So yeah, so if last week if I suggested someone run a Doctor’s Data stool test after 30 days of an antimicrobial protocol for SIBO, it must’ve been that there were ongoing symptoms, and then absolutely my question would be, what else is going on in the gut that we need to address and treat it? Because, just because you’ve treated SIBO doesn’t mean that you’ve necessarily brought the colon microbiome back where it needs to be.

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