[HealthyIndia] Importance of keeping the colon healthy.

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Safety of probiotics not yet fully established.Certain strains could be harmful. Probiotics: 'Living Drugs' from American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Safety of Probiotics The available probiotic microorganisms are considered nonpathogenic, but even benign microorganisms can be infective when a patient is severely debilitated or immunosuppressed. For example, lactobacilli are present in dairy products and are part of the normal flora, yet cases of lactobacillemia have been reported in patients with severe underlying conditions.[96,97] To date, there have been only isolated reports linking probiotics with adverse effects. A case of a liver abscess was associated with L. rhamnosus in a 74-year-old diabetic,[98] and cases of fungemia involving S.

boulardii have been reported. [99-101] All patients responded to standard antimicrobial therapy. S. boulardii has been used, without complications, to treat chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients,[61,64] and L. reuteri has been safely given to HIV-infected patients.[102] There is a theoretical risk of transfer of antimicrobial resistance from the probiotic to other microorganisms with which it might come in contact, but this has not yet been observed during therapy. On the basis of published findings, the risks of therapy with available probiotics seem small. However, published studies systematically evaluating the safety of probiotics are lacking. The use of probiotics must be carefully considered when these "living drugs" are used therapeutically in patients at high risk for opportunistic infections or when the gastrointestinal tract is badly damaged. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/406975_4Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote: The problem lies in the loss of a healthy balance of friendly bacteria (probiotics) in the body. One school of thought holds that ill health begins in the colon through a process of "auto-intoxication" whereby waste products and toxins from the colon seep into the bloodstream and initiate disease.

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1. Those who keep their GI tract biology in good conditions will

never reach the conditions stated in the referred study.

 

2. In future not only probiotics, but even fruit and vegetable juices

will be shown to be dangerous on various counts; home made chapati

will be adulterated by metallic impurities of cooking vessels. on the

other hand, pills of vitamins, enzymes, hormones and minerals will be

shown safe as they are manufactured in germless environment and

stainless steel machines.

 

Alternative practitioners must sift properly between " propoganda "

literature often " ghost-written " and discussions in groups like this

one.

 

3. Every living food is going to have a microbial cultures inside it,

just as we have probiotics inside. Let intelligence of our digestive

system decide what to retain and what to drive out. This intelligence

is immunity and whosoever develops it well once, can drink even

Ganges water without any fear. On the other hand, if we want to show

something as dangerous give it to those whose immunity is already

down due to diseases. That is the way science trials are carried out

and a statistical theory of designing trials is known as " design of

experients " . To obtain results pleasing to the experimenter.

 

 

 

 

, " Dr. Venu Gopal M.D

\(Ayurveda\) " <dr_venug wrote:

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> Safety of probiotics not yet fully established.Certain strains

could be harmful.

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> Probiotics: 'Living Drugs'

> from American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy