Probiotics Help Prevent Intestinal Infection

A new study published in Gut (2004, vol.53: 108-117) suggests that taking a daily probiotic supplement may help prevent chronic or recurrent intestinal infection in people who have had their colons surgically removed. About 10 to 20 percent of people with a form of inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis have their colons surgically removed. After, the end of the small intestine is attached to the anal opening, which creates a pouch that takes on some functions of the colon. Roughly half of the people who have this procedure develop pouchitis, inflammation of the pouch believed to be caused by the presence of abnormal microorganisms. In the study, 36 people with recurrent pouchitis randomly received either six grams of a daily probiotic supplement or placebo for 12 months. At the end of the study, 17 of 20 people who had taken probiotics remained free of pouchitis, while only one of 16 people who had taken placebo remained free of pouchitis. 

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Probiotics are a large part of the immune system within the intestines - the part you don't hear much about until you experience fungal overgrowth long enough to figure out you don't have enough of the probiotics, 'good bacteria', in your gut which should control the overgrowth of yeast. These vital probiotics are destroyed by antibiotics and do not recolonize in the gut after their demise.  Supplementing with probiotics seems to be necessary for balancing infectious agents of any kind from all sources.  When the delicate balance is disturbed by drugs, surgery, illness or a lack of good bacteria since birth you are prone to infection.  Many people have stopped Montezuma's Revenge simply with probiotics.  And many have quieted the symptoms of IBS and diverticulitis with probiotics.  They are an incredibly important piece to the puzzle of gut trouble of all kinds.