Supplement × Prescription·a caution·Emerging evidence
Live probiotics rarely cause invasive infection in severely immunosuppressed patients.
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What is happening. Live probiotics rarely cause invasive infection in severely immunosuppressed patients.
Mechanism. Immunosuppression can permit translocation or bloodstream infection from live organisms.
Recommendation. Avoid unsupervised probiotics during intense immunosuppression, neutropenia, central lines, or severe illness.
Effect on the composite score
If both Mycophenolate Mofetil 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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