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Probiotics As A Treatment For Leaky Gut

11th July, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Normally, when there is an infection, the clinician would diagnose the type of infection and then prescribe antibiotics. Antibiotics are medications that prevent, inhibit of destroy the life of a pathogen like yeasts, staphylococcus and others. There are times, however, when the use of the antibiotics can disrupt the normal flora of the body and lead to severe gut dysbiosis.

As antibiotics are normally taken orally, the first to get hit by the medications is the gastrointestinal tract. If these antibiotics disrupt the flora within the intestines, the intestines themselves could get attacked and this will affect its tight junctions, or that thing which controls the permeability of the intestinal walls.

Biologically, no toxins or microorganisms are released directly into the bloodstream from inside the intestines. If the walls become weakened, however, as an adverse effect to antibiotics, then complications begin.

Probiotics are the complete opposite of antibiotics. These are actually some live microorganism that is considered healthy to the host, meaning the humans. These live microorganisms, like lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria, as well as certain yeasts and bacilli are helpful in re-establishing the normal flora in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

Introducing these live microorganisms will improve the intestinal microbial balance and inhibit the pathogens and toxin producing bacteria. There are a lot of positive results from researches done on this field and it is fast becoming popular as an alternative medical therapy from the standard approaches.

Probiotics, in the form of yogurt and dietary supplements have proven beneficial to a lot of conditions including Leaky Gut Syndrome treatment. It is found that with this new approach, the normal intestinal functioning is rapidly regained and the permeability of the intestinal walls gets immediate relief to normalcy. As leaky gut can cause autoimmune responses, the introduction of the Probiotics not only improves the function of the GI tract, but that it also prevents infections from recurring as the normal flora are now able to ‘defend’ its post more effectively.