Hello Marijke, Russians are notorious for self-diagnosis and self-treatment. If you do a search on disbacteriosis, you can find out the reason for looking for probiotics. The drug you mentioned is called Bactisubtil. It is used for treatment of (yes) disbactriosis, the most popular diagnosis in Russian babies, as well as acute or chronic diarrhea in children. Very few doctors have education and experience in working with exclusively breastfed children, so normal bf-infant stools are mistaken for diarrhea. There are several ways of "normalizing" bf-baby stools -- probiotics or|and formula. Doctors aim is stool that of an adult. While supportive flora may beneficial for formula-fed children (most of Russian children are) and is beneficial for infants after antibiotic treatment (antibiotics are overused in Russia), there is absolutely no reason to look for probiotics in case of a healthy breastfed baby. Hope this helps and clears the issue, Natalie Wilson LLL of NC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html