linkedin post 2014-06-06 04:51:55

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VAGINAL IMMUNITY BOOSTER. "When babies are born, they have the same bacterial community throughout their entire body, whereas adults have several different bacterial communities in different locations throughout their bodies (e.g., mouth, skin, colon, and vagina). Babies born vaginally developed bacterial cultures similar to those in their mothers’ vagina." http://www.badgut.org/information-centre/babies-and-bacteria-1.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-06 04:50:47

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ANTIBIOTICS AND THE MICROBIOME IN BIRTH. "Antibiotics given in labour increased the incidence of late-onset serious bacterial infections in infants." Antibiotics are also administered before a C-section. Given the importance of the early microbiome in early development, this appears to be a bad practice. http://lnkd.in/d_7QzAj View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-06 04:49:22

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GOOD BACTERIA IN VAGINA. "Infants born by vaginal delivery typically shared more bacterial species with their own mother than with other mothers, while this could not be shown for infants born by caesarian section ... members of the mother's gut microbiota are transferred to the child during vaginal delivery and that caesarian section leads to an altered colonization pattern of the infant's lower intestine." http://lnkd.in/d6d83nN View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-06 04:47:26

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PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND BAD PREGNANCIES. "The epidemiological studies predominantly support a positive association between these wide-affecting diseases ... oral bacteria may translocate directly into the pregnant uterus, causing localized inflammation and adverse pregnancy outcome in the presence or absence of clinical periodontitis." http://jdr.sagepub.com/content/90/3/289.short View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-06 04:43:53

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PLACENTA HARBORS A MICROBIOME SIMILAR TO THE MOUTH. "Placental specimens (were) collected under sterile conditions from 320 subjects. We characterized a unique placental microbiome niche, composed of nonpathogenic commensal microbiota ... In aggregate, the placental microbiome profiles were most akin ... to the human oral microbiome." http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/237/237ra65.short View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-05 04:19:17

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"EARLY MICROBIAL PROGRAMMING begins in utero and is substantially modulated by mode of birth, perinatal antibiotics and breastfeeding ... this stepwise microbial colonization process ... might have a long-lasting influence on the risk of not only gastrointestinal disease, but also allergic, autoimmune and metabolic disease, in later life." http://www.nature.com/nrgastro/journal/v9/n10/abs/nrgastro.2012.144.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-05 04:17:04

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"MATERNAL GUT MICROBIOTA may be able to translocate to the baby/placenta via the blood stream. Women’s gut microbiota change during pregnancy and this impacts on metabolism. During a vaginal birth the baby is colonised by maternal vaginal and faecal bacteria." http://lnkd.in/d_7QzAj View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-05 04:14:57

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IMMUNE COMPROMISE OF C-SECTION BABIES. "Infants delivered by C-section had lower levels of Th1 in their blood, showing an imbalance between Th1 and Th2 chemicals (and) could be more susceptible to developing allergies ... a lack of good gut bacteria can lead to allergies, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease." http://lnkd.in/d6d83nN View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-05 04:12:46

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BIRTH CANAL BACTERIA KEY FOR INFANT HEALTH. "Infants who are delivered by caesarean section have a lower range of good gut bacteria in their first 2 years of life, compared with infants delivered through the mother's birth canal ... babies delivered by C-section were missing one of the major groups of gut bacteria, the Bacteroidetes phylum, compared with the babies who were born vaginally." http://lnkd.in/d6d83nN View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2014-06-05 04:10:18

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WOMB MICROBIOME. "Popular thinking has held that as a baby works his way through a birth canal teeming with microorganisms, his body is colonized with its first commensal bacteria ... But a bevy of microbes exist in the womb. Tissues once thought to be germ-free are crawling with microbes, and that babies’ introduction to the microbial world comes from multiple ...sources." http://lnkd.in/d_Vd_vN View in LinkedIn
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