Gut flora

lies with when a physician prescribes them for something they are unable to treat, such as viral infections. In this case, antibiotics would unnecessarily introduced into the patient’s body, throwing off the carefully balanced ecosystem of healthy gut (flora) bacteria. In addition, antibiotics are unable to target only “bad” bacteria. According to the Spanish Ministry of Health, “During treatment with antibiotics, hundreds of thousands of bacteria, most of which are unrelated to the etiologic…

His statement made me shudder with fear. It was the same fear that gripped my body at age 8 when I first glimpsed the Creature from the Black Lagoon. When the creature emerged from the inky, black pond on my family’s black and white RCA cabinet television and I imagined it crawling out of our neighbor’s dark-water irrigation pond, staggering into our backyard, scratching a hole in my bedroom wall with its barbed-wire claws and snatching me while I slept. Of course, I had an excuse; I had…

Cream may have the potential for use as a probiotic carrier because it provides an excellent environment for probiotic bacteria, with the added advantage of having nutritional value.Fatty Acids composition in fermented synbiotic cream, containing one of the two probiotic bacteria ( Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei ) and inulin (0,1.5, 3%) was evaluated during 30 days for the the15-day interval at 4±1 °C. All chemical characterization were affected by the probiotic bacteria strain…

Bio II Bacteria Paper: Clostridium Botulinum Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that causes the illness, in humans known as botulism (Smith and Sugiyama, 1988). It produces a potent neurotoxin called botulinum toxin that causes botulism or foodborne botulism. The spores are heat resistant and can survive in foods that are incorrectly or poorly processed (FDA). There are seven recognized types of botulism (A-G) but only A, B, E, and F cause human…

can potentially attain the new treatment goals beyond symptom control in these patients [12]. The pathophysiology of UC is not yet completely elucidated but the general consensus is that UC results from an abnormal mucosal immune response to enteric flora, a response that is in part genetically…

Natural Treatment of the Symptoms of Helicobacter Pylori Helicobacter pylori is a bacteria that causes chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining) among people. Helicobacter pylori is the main cause of stomach and duodenal ulcers. According to statistics, 90% of people with stomach ulcer test positive for Helicobacter pylori. Characteristics of Helicobacter pylori This gram-positive spiral bacteria discovered by Warren and Marshall in 1984. They found the bacteria in the stomach…

diff is a bacteria that lives in the intestines. It is a normal bacteria that if remained in balance with the other bacterias in the gut, people would not have issues with it their whole lives. However, if the balance changes causing the C. diff bacteria to become overpopulated increases the risk of an infection to occur. Clostridium difficile could be spread by the feces and contaminated…

URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS Abstract UTI is one of the most common infection to affect people all around the world in today's world, putting a huge load on the health care system cost wise. Because this problem is so common and so significant in routine clinical practice, a high level of diagnostic accuracy is essential. The urinary tract infection (UTI) which involves urethra, bladder or kidneys can be infected, the majority of UTI are not serious and can be treated by antibiotics but if not…

Haida Gwaii is often referred to as the “The Canadian Galapagos” with over 6800 species of flora and fauna and presence of more unique subspecies than any other areas in Canada of equal size (Gaston, Golumbia, Martin & Sharpe, 2008). Haida Gwaii is located 80 km west of the mainland of British Columbia and is the largest and most isolated archipelago located on the west coast of Canada (Stockton, Allombert, Gaston & Martin, 2005). As the archipelago is within close proximity of the Pacific Ocean…

Background In 2014, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) published a new set of practice guidelines for Hepatic Encephalopathy (Vistrup et al., 2014). These guidelines define Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) as “a brain dysfunction caused by liver insufficiency and/or portosystemic shunting, and manifests as a wide spectrum of neurological/psychiatric abnormalities ranging from subclinical alterations to coma”…