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Retest to Confirm SIBO Relapse

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Just a reminder if you think that your SIBO has come back. It might be SIFO instead. Get retested to be certain that it's SIBO and not SIFO. Antibiotics cured my sugar triggered bloating but bloating came back after a month BUT not triggered by sugar so back to the food and symptom logs. To make a long story short, cellulose of any kind including as filler in pills, carrageenen in ground beef, and malted barley in breads and wheat flours were causing the bloating CONFIRMED by another breath test. Antibiotics cured this SIBO, except bloating came back triggered by sugar again. But last time sugar alcohols also triggered bloating but not this time. This time breath test came back negative therefore doctor concludes SIFO by differential diagnosis and prescribed antifungal treatments are slowly helping. BTW SIFO bloating is caused by carbon dioxide.

Posted Jan 11, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC

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