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Abcs 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.

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) for the most part represented by lactobacilli, and bifidobacteria are the most common types of probiotic microorganisms, including some yeasts and bacilli may be useful. The lactic acid bacteria are commonly consumed along with the fermented foods that contain them - foods such as yogurt or soy yogurt with the addition of specific bacterial cultures alive and active.

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.

Probacterias can be used as addition in food (this also includes food, food supplements or dietary foods) or be administered in form of drugs. They are accrued by the prebiotics that have a positive effect (growth stimulation) on already in intestines are in dividend microorganisms and synbiotics, a combination of both. The first observations on the positive effects of probiotics on human health date back to the early twentieth century.

It has been speculated that antibiotics can "mitigate" the immune system, while probiotics him back to a state of alert, more ready to react quickly to new infections. Pro biotics are also useful in reducing the effects of infectious diarrhea in children, especially in Western countries where rotavirus infection is the main cause, and shorten the duration of diarrhea for a few hours or an entire day can be significant.

These results can be considered valid also for all those who have similar symptoms but do not have a diagnosis of IBS. Some strains gave positive results for this type of activity, including the reduction of constipation and restoring a "normal" transit time. Interesting are the data obtained in a 2009 study on the efficacy of Lactobacillus GG in the outpatient management approaches with natural disturbances related to formar diarea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and bloating.

There is no evidence that the bacteria that inhabit the intestine (the so-called intestinal microbiota) may modulate the mucosal immune system; some probiotic strains are able to establish a dialogue cross (cross-talk) with the intestinal immune system (GALT, Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue) and to therefore have an effect on it.




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