Supplement × Prescription·a caution·Emerging evidence
Live probiotics rarely cause bacteremia or fungemia in severely immunosuppressed patients.
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What is happening. Live probiotics rarely cause bacteremia or fungemia in severely immunosuppressed patients.
Mechanism. Reduced immune surveillance can permit translocation or invasive infection from live organisms.
Recommendation. Avoid unsupervised probiotics during intense immunosuppression, neutropenia, central lines, or severe illness.
Effect on the composite score
If both Azathioprine and Probiotics are in the same stack, this pair applies −5 to your Stack Score (per scored caution row).
The full algorithm, the clamping rules, and four worked stacks are at /methodology/stack-score.
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