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If you have no other health issues it should be fine, with a few caveats. Don't go crazy with dosing, thinking it is completely benign. There are a few reported cases of encephalopathy from long term, high dose use of bismuth subsalicylate. Bismuth is a heavy metal and can accumulate in the body, particularly with liver or kidney disease. 

Also, it is a salicylate, so it can have the same side effects as aspirin.

http://journals.lww.com/em-new...lt_in_Severe.12.aspx

Jan

Thanks Jan. Always caveats, eh? I've got ADPKD (kidney function is perfect currently) so I should probably be careful. I'd rarely used it over the last decade since takedown and was surprised to see how well it worked. I wonder if I have a bacterial issue in my J-pouch that is not pouchitis related. If Pepto works almost like an antibiotic could I perhaps use antibiotics to slow down my output?

Yes, probably. Probiotics are supposed to have a similar effect, but the results are less consistent. You can definitely have bacterial overgrowth without pouchitis.

Currently I am rotating Cipro, Flagyl, and Rifaximin for chronic pouchitis. Rifaximin does not work as well for me as the other antibiotics, so I take Pepto Bismol 3 times a day when I am on it and it improves my function. 

Jan

I really can't swallow the liquid. It is too thick for me (not hard to swallow---just an "ick" factor for me). I chew the tablets. I do not take pepto routinely, but if I fly (which I do for work), I take it and Gas-X to keep my J-pouch calm. We make more gas when we are in higher atmospheres and we all know that gas in the enemy of J-pouchers.

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