If you are giving lo probiotics

[thedahliharpa]

What food or drink are you serving them in? I had not realized that what we use, Kid's culturelle because it is dairy free, is not supposed to served in warm or hot food/drinks. D pretty much eats everything at room temp or warmer. She doesn't do so well w/ cold food although she will drink a cold bottle needed. But she only gets bottles 2 days a week. It is proving to be a PITA. She is not into juice.

[katie]

We FF and give it to her in a bottle which is usually at room temperature. We give her the bio gaia one, 5 drops. Will she drink water from a cup with it in it?

[Deleted]

The Bio Gaia we use is only 5 drops and I can just put it on the spoon and he takes it.

[eav2c]

Id been giving bio gaia drops on his spoon of food. My worry is getting him to take all the culturelle. Does it get mixed with water? I would probably give it to him via an infant medicine dispenser to make sure he gets all of it given it isn't tons.

[Deleted]

I use a powder and I mix it with pumped BM in a sippy or a little apple juice/water.

[erniebufflo]

I put Culturelle packets into room temp bottles of formula.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 11, 2013 16:49:36 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Id been giving bio gaia drops on his spoon of food. My worry is getting him to take all the culturelle. Does it get mixed with water? I would probably give it to him via an infant medicine dispenser to make sure he gets all of it given it isn't tons.

Food or water. I had given it to her in warmed up BM. Today i portioned a bit of her slightly chilled puree and mixed it but she was not so into it. Then again she may not dig apricots which are a new food this week. I will look into the drops. When H was a baby the Kid's Culturelle were all I could find that were allergen safe. I could switch though and give H the Culturelle if something works better for D.

Ladybug, she won't drink juice which was really frustrating during the constipation deal this past week. She takes sips of water throughout the day but not significant amounts.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 11, 2013 17:06:34 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

I put Culturelle packets into room temp bottles of formula.

Do you know why warm food/milk would matter? Does it kill the good stuff before it is consumed? Once it hits their mouths it is warmer than room temp. We are trying to get her more accustomed to room temp food in the meantime.

[erniebufflo]

Jan 11, 2013 17:20:30 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Jan 11, 2013 17:06:34 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

I put Culturelle packets into room temp bottles of formula.

Do you know why warm food/milk would matter? Does it kill the good stuff before it is consumed? Once it hits their mouths it is warmer than room temp. We are trying to get her more accustomed to room temp food in the meantime.

I have no idea. H kind of thinks it's expensive voodoo that I do it, but I just try to follow the package instructions.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 11, 2013 17:21:35 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

Jan 11, 2013 17:20:30 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Do you know why warm food/milk would matter? Does it kill the good stuff before it is consumed? Once it hits their mouths it is warmer than room temp. We are trying to get her more accustomed to room temp food in the meantime.

I have no idea. H kind of thinks it's expensive voodoo that I do it, but I just try to follow the package instructions.

Aww shucks I was hoping he endorsed Culturelle. But yeah it is expensive. I recently bought some from diapers.com for $19.99.

[erniebufflo]

Jan 11, 2013 17:27:43 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Jan 11, 2013 17:21:35 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

I have no idea. H kind of thinks it's expensive voodoo that I do it, but I just try to follow the package instructions.

Aww shucks I was hoping he endorsed Culturelle. But yeah it is expensive. I recently bought some from diapers.com for $19.99.

He sometimes admits the voodoo works. He thought gas drops were voodoo but that shit worked for us so he shut up.

[Deleted]

I also heard you could apply it to your nipple right before breastfeeding..

[katie]

L is on nutramigen and it has a probiotic in it. They recommend on the label not warming the bottle because it may make the probiotic less effective.