Guide To 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.

Containing these microorganisms and therefore fresh pro-biotics are yogurt, other fermented milk products, buttermilk and other. One of the benefits of probiotic foods is improving balance. They help to improve symptoms and problems such as fatigue, trouble defenses, breast feeding and strengthening the immune system.

The consequences of these interactions as a whole, however, are yet to understand. It is believed that probiotics can have several beneficial effects on immune function. They can protect from the pathogenic species through inhibition of growth through competition and, as suggested by some evidence, act on the immune system by increasing the number of cells that produce immunoglobulin, enhancing phagocytosis, increasing the proportion of T lymphocytes and NK cells (Natural Killer).

But the two enzymes present in such products do not play a beneficial role in human organisms because they die as soon as they come into contact with the gastric juices. According to FAO / WHO guidelines, good bacteria are defined only those microorganisms that can demonstrate, when ingested in adequate amounts, exert beneficial functions in body.

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.

A probiotic strain widely studied in this context is that the Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG was able to reduce the duration of infectious diarrhea supported by rotavirus, common pathogen in children and an important cause of hospitalization. The guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics 2010, as in 2008 the guidelines (Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) indicate that for the treatment of acute diarrhea the beneficial effect is strain-dependent and that Lactobacillus GG is to date the most effective probiotic, which already if administered at onset of acute diarrhea, is able to reduce the duration of about 1 day.

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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