Antibiotic yes. I also use olive leaf and EOs as antibiotics (will look into grapefruit seed extract thx), and have ferments in many forms in the fridge, but this one beat me bad! It's impossible to find a GI who will guide us or even talk about alternative treatments as supplements. I've read silver is an excellent supplement to many low-tech antibiotics (except amoxicillin curiously) to combat anti-biotic resistant bacteria. https://www.thesilveredge.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/BYU_study.pdf I know silver kept c-diff at bay while we struggled with the insurance company for eight days to get the only antibiotic known to have any effect, vancomycin at $3000 a pop retail.
We have to stop them. The field of gastroenteroloy is killing us all. I am working my tushy off here trying to show them they are wrong!!! The patient might keep ending up in the hospital, but he would be dead now if I'd let them have their way for another year.