Overview Of Probiotics For IBS

By Patty Goff


Probiotics are live microorganisms added to food to remain active in the intestine and exert important physiological effects. Ingested in sufficient quantities, can have beneficial effects, such as contributing to the balance of the intestinal microbiota of a host and enhance the immune system. Probiotics for IBS can pass through the digestive tract and feces recovered alive, but also adhere to the intestinal mucosa. They are not pathogenic, except in cases where immunocompromised individuals are supplied.

It is also seen that some foods and probiotic supplements modulate the inflammatory response, and it is thought that this is due at least in part in the regulation of the function of cytokines with regard to the inflammatory response, for example, some clinical studies suggest that they can prevent relapse of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, inflammatory bowel Disease) in adults.

Probiotic bacteria survive passage through the gastrointestinal tract and are implanted in colon or small intestine and help to improve the health of dairy products. Pro-biotics affect less people with impaired lactose. Repeated consumption probiotic yogurt in relatively large amounts has a therapeutic effect against Helicobacteria.

In a 2004 study were tested some markers of the immune system of students who have taken for 6 weeks during the exams (3 weeks of the study, 3 weeks of exams) milk or Actimel. Two of these markers were significantly different between the group that took milk and what was taking Actimel: increased production of lymphocytes and the production of CD56 positive cells.

No type of product containing pro-biotics has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medical indications. A 2010 study suggests that any positive effects of probiotic therapy in the prevention of secondary infections, a common complication of antibiotic therapy, may result from the fact that the ingestion of foods containing good bacteria helps to keep the immune system called, first, that the helps to counteract the negative effects of the disease and the intake of antibiotics.

Nobel laureate Eli Metchnikoff, who worked at the Pasteur Institute in the early years of the twentieth century, hypothesized that these effects arising from an improvement in intestinal microbial balance through inhibition of pathogenic bacteria. Since then, knowledge about biotics have been enriched by scientific and clinical studies in large numbers and with great frequency.

Now data is available on specific effects, such as attenuation of inflammatory bowel disease, the prevention and treatment of diarrhea induced by pathogens urogenital infections, atopic diseases. They were and still are objects of study the interactions between biotics and immune system, the potential of biotics as anti-cancer.

Lactic acid bacteria are considered useful in the treatment of Helicobacter infections pylor i (associated with peptic ulcers) in adults in combination with medications normally used for this purpose. However, further studies are needed in this area. As of May 2011, there were approximately 140 published studies involving probiotics and H. Pylori, which showed that the addition of probiotic yogurt containing triple eradication therapy did not increase the rate of eradication of H. Pylori, however, reduced the frequency of stomatitis and constipation.




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