Targeting the vaginal microbiota with probiotics as a means to counteract infections
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 10/27/2009
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Reid G et al. – The mechanisms whereby certain probiotic lactobacilli improve urogenital health include immune modulation, pathogen displacement and creation of a niche less conducive to proliferation of ... Probiotics offer a potential new means to prevent urogenital infections and help maintain a healthy vaginal ecosystem.
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Effect of probiotic supplementation on immunoglobulins, isoagglutinins and antibody response in children of low socio-economic status
European Journal of Nutrition, 10/21/2009
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Pérez N et al. – Supplementation of standard fermented milk with additional probiotics was not of benefit. The high natural rate of early microbial exposure ... and children from a population of low socio–economic status living in a “less hygienic environment” may account for the absence of an additional immune–stimulating effect by supplementary probiotics.
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Probiotics Have Clinical, Microbiologic, and Immunologic Efficacy in Acute Infectious Diarrhea
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 11/17/2009
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Chen CC et al. – This probiotics mixture reduced the severity of diarrhea and length of hospital stay in children with acute diarrhea. In addition to restoring beneficial intestinal flora ... probiotics may enhance host protective immunity such as down–regulation of pro–inflammatory cytokines and up–regulation of anti–inflammatory cytokines.
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A Feasibility Study of Probiotics Pretreatment as a Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy in Constipated Patients
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 10/22/2009
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Kim YH et al. – Two weeks of probiotics pretreatment as part of bowel preparation significantly improves colonic mucosa visualization during colonoscopy and reduces preparation&ndash
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Probiotics may reduce skin condition in some kids
Reuters, 10/12/2009
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Treating pregnant mothers, and then their infants, with select strains of probiotics bacteria present naturally in the body and sometimes added to food or dietary supplements to boost immune function may help prevent a skin condition known as
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Lack of Effects of Oral Probiotics on Growth and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Very Low Birth Weight Infants
The Journal of Pediatrics, 11/23/2009
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Chou IC et al. – Oral probiotics given to PVLBW infants at 1 week after birth to reduce the incidence of NEC did not affect growth and neurodevelopmental and sensory outcomes
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of enteral nutrition formulations in acute pancreatitis
British Journal of Surgery, 10/22/2009
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intolerance, infectious complications or death in patients with acute pancreatitis. Neither the supplementation of enteral nutrition with probiotics nor the use of immunonutrition significantly improves the clinical outcomes.
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CD4+ T Cells and Lactobacillus casei Control Relapsing Colitis Mediated by CD8+ T Cells
Journal of Immunology, 10/22/2009
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by controlling colitogenic effector/memory CD8+ T cells during the effector (symptomatic) phase of acute and relapsing colitis, respectively. Probiotics with natural adjuvant effects on mucosal regulatory T cells may represent a valuable approach to alleviate the colitogenic effect of Tc1–type
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Prebiotics for irritable bowel syndrome
Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 10/16/2009
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subjects’ global assessment of relief and quality of life. This study indicates that prebiotics, either on their own or in combination with a probiotic, deserve further study in IBS.
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Milk Supplement Saves Preemies
Ivanhoe, 10/12/2009
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Very low birth–weight newborns who received the milk protein lactoferrin alone or in combination with a probiotic had a reduced incidence of late–onset sepsis, according to a new study.
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