Month: September 2022

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

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

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

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

HUMAN MILK COLOSTRUM. "Colostrum contains antibodies to protect the newborn against disease, as well as being lower in fat and higher in protein than ordinary milk. Colostrum is known to contain immune cells (as lymphocytes) and many antibodies such as IgA, IgG, and IgM. These are the major components of the adaptive immune system". http://lnkd.in/dGNDPw7 View in LinkedIn

FALSE DOGMA OF STERILE MILK. “The overwhelming dogma before the microbiome world really started was that milk was sterile, that the only time you could culture an organism out of milk was when a woman had mastitis." http://lnkd.in/d_Vd_vN View in LinkedIn

HUMAN MILK MICROBIOME. “It’s quite a diverse [microbial] community ... It was very personalized ... Part of that personalization means she’s sampling her environment and providing that environment to her offspring, and maybe that’s a way to train the immune system and help the infant expand what it’s going to be exposed to early in life.” http://lnkd.in/d_Vd_vN View in LinkedIn

HUMAN BREAST MILK CONTAINS OVER 700 SPECIES OF BACTERIA. "The breast milk received from the mother is one of the factors determining how the bacterial flora will develop in the newborn baby ... the milk of overweight mothers ... contains a lesser diversity of species." http://lnkd.in/dXfkaDS View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTION OF MILK MICROBIOME WITH ANTIBIOTICS."Mastitis, which can cause such severe pain and is often treated with antibiotics, is characterized by a “huge dysbiosis” of the breast-milk microbiome ... A single strain of pathogenic bacteria would dominate the sample, while Lactobacillus would disappear." http://lnkd.in/d_Vd_vN View in LinkedIn

PROBIOTIC TREATMENT FOR MASTITIS, NOT ANTIBIOTICS. "He designed a study in which women took supplements containing the missing bacteria, and found that, sure enough, the same strains of Lactobacillus showed up in their breast milk. Unexpectedly, after about three weeks on the supplements, the women reported that their mastitis had cleared up." http://lnkd.in/d_Vd_vN View in LinkedIn