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I feel diarrhea after antibiotic medicine. how to make it stop?

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Dr. You Sung Sang answered

Common side effect: You can try some low-dose anti diarrheal such as Imodium (loperamide) AD and a probiotic such as Florastor.

Answered 1/26/2015

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