Have you ever taken antibiotics to fight an infection and suddenly gotten severe diarrhea? This happened because while the antibiotics are killing the bad bacteria, they are also killing the good bacteria in your intestines. Then you get diarrhea. You can prevent diarrhea by restoring the good bacteria, or probiotics, in your intestines. Probiotics maintain the health of the intestinal tract. An easy, natural source of probiotics is yoghurt. For the details given in a recent scientific study about probiotics that verified this, check out this article, “Probiotics May Prevent Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea” from the May, 2012, issue of Natural Standard’s Integrative Medicine Newsletter.