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Shegunshi : probiotics and Antibiotics: A Brief Overview .... Methodology and Design Introduction probiotics such as yogurt have gotten a lot of attention recently, both in medical and public circles, as potential aids to digestion.... In particular, probiotics are increasingly being used to aid people after an antibiotic course: “ A person taking antibiotics is equivalent to pouring bleach into a fish tank to kill an overgrowth of algae.... It is necessary for people taking antibiotics to alternate with probiotics because antibiotics kill beneficial bacteria along with the bacteria causing the illness”....
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Dissertation
Probiotics use in the Prevention of Antibiotic Associated diarrhoea: Clostridium difficile Introduction Antibiotic associated diarrhoea (AAD) is the most prevalent impediment of most antibiotics and Clostridium difficile disease (CDD).... CDD is also responsible for nosocomial outbursts of diarrhoea as well as colitis.... It is essential to adopt probiotic formulation to thwart diarrhoea.... Over the years and with growing awareness about the antibiotics associated diarrhoea, probiotics are now being exploited to overcome such conditions and are made available in the form of capsules or as food supplements....
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This essay "Dairy Foods and Human Nutrition" is about scientific progress in nutrition, medical and food sciences are having an increasing effect on our approach towards nutrition.... There had been a growing awareness about the effects that nutrition has on the health of an individual.... ... ... ...
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Feeding of Bifidobacterium bifidum and Streptococcus thermophilus to infants in hospital for prevention of diarrhoea and shedding of rotavirus.... probiotics are live microbial organisms in food supplements, or components of bacteria that have a beneficial effect on human health.... The most common probiotics are Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria (Isolauri et al.... (1994) carried out a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on infants and found that supplementation of infant formula with known probiotics, Bifidobacterium bifidum and Streptococcus thermophilus, resulted in a decreased incidence of acute diarrhea....
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In 1989 Probiotic was first time used as a scientific term by Ray Fuller later Tissier identified the bifidobacteria in 1899 and used it for the treatment of diarrhea (Mary Ellen Sanders, 2010).... Probiotic is a combination of two Greek words; Pro-promoting and Biotic-life (Betty.... ... ...
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probiotics are found in different kinds of foods including yogurt.... The probiotics or good bacteria are considered to be live micro organisms whereby if administered in the right quantity confer a health benefit to the host.... probiotics are They are also available in supplements in form of capsules, chewable and liquid.... There are various strains of probiotics but the most common are lactobacillus and bifid bacterium.... A study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles in the USA discovered that probiotics can alter the brain function as well....
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The paper "Helicobacter Pylori as a Gram-negative Microaerophilic Bacterium" states that potential use of probiotics as an alternative therapy for Helicobacter infection has generated a considerable amount of interest.... The two main thrusts in this research are to find whether the addition of probiotic results in any positive outcome when administered along with the therapeutic regimen and whether probiotics were able to ameliorate any adverse effect that may have to arise due to conventional therapeutic procedure....
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probiotics are live microorganisms that when they are administered properly they are beneficial to the recipient (FAO/WHO, 2001).... Clostridium difficile is one of the leading causes of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients.... Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming, cytotoxin-producing bacillus (Leffler DA et al,....
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