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Does anyone have any info on taking probiotic supplements when neutropenic?

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Does anyone have any info on taking probiotic supplements when neutropenic?

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Thanks Birgitta, Grant has been taking a refrigerated probiotic capsule for about 6 months with no problems, even when he has been neutropenic. I just sort of freaked myself out recently when I realized that it may not have been a good idea. I guess ignorance is bliss. I did tell his doctors he was taking it, but it was just one item in a list of other herbs and stuff and I wonder if they even noticed. It is on my list of questions for this week when I talk to his doctors. The one he takes also contains a PRE-biotic in addition to 6 strains of probiotics. All of the probiotics are in the lactobacillus or bifidobacterium family.