What were the nature of your digestive problems if you had no problems with
your stomach? just curious
tx
jeff
"RF" <RF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ironjustice wrote:
>> Eating iron contributes to Helicobacter pylori infection?
>> Lactoferrin binds up iron.
>> The human body produces it.
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>>
>> Lactoferrin and Probiotics Improve Results of Helicobacter pylori
>> Release Date: May 25, 2007; Reviewed and Renewed: May 23, 2008;
>>
>> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557253
>>
>> May 25, 2007 — Standard treatment with two antibiotics and a proton
>> pump inhibitor fails to eradicate Helicobacter pylori in about 25% of
>> patients treated for gastritis or peptic ulcer disease. Investigators
>> in Italy now re****t that supplementation with bovine lactoferrin and
>> probiotic bacteria can boost cure rates and reduce side effects.
>>
>> Lead investigator Dr. Nicola de Bortoli at the University of Pisa and
>> colleagues attribute treatment failure to bacterial resistance and
>> side effects that hinder patient compliance. Other investigators have
>> considered the addition of a third antibiotic to the regimen to
>> increase treatment efficacy.
>>
>> In contrast, Dr. de Bortoli's team suggests adjuvant therapy as an
>> alternative approach. Lactoferrin is a glycoprotein found in bodily
>> secretions involved in immune defense, the researchers explain in the
>> American Journal of Gastroenterology for May. Evidence suggests it
>> harbors bactericidal efficacy against H. pylori.
>>
>> Probiotics have had a therapeutic influence in other gastroenteric
>> illnesses, including inflammatory bowel disease and viral infections.
>> The probiotic capsule (Probinul, Cadigroup) was selected because of
>> its high concentrations of multiple lactic-acid producing bacteria —
>> Lactobacillus spp., Bifidobacterium spp, and Streptococcus
>> thermophilus.
>>
>> In an open-label, prospective trial, the physicians randomized 206
>> patients with H. pylori infection to standard therapy for 7 days
>> (esomeprazole, clarithromycin, and amoxicillin) or standard therapy
>> plus bovine lactoferrin and the probiotic.
>>
>> The patients were instructed to take the proton pump inhibitor 30
>> minutes before breakfast and dinner, the antibiotics and bovine
>> lactoferrins 30 minutes after the two meals, and the probiotic
>> supplement 1 hour after breakfast and dinner.
>>
>> Eight weeks after the regimens were completed, the subjects were
>> tested for H. pylori eradication using the C-13 urea breath test.
>>
>> In the intent-to-treat analysis, 72.5% of the controls and 88.6% of
>> the adjuvant therapy group tested negative for H. pylori (p = 0.005).
>> In the per-protocol analysis, the corresponding rates were 76% and
>> 92.1% (p = 0.004).
>>
>> Compared with the adjunct therapy group, significantly more control
>> patients re****ted episodes of nausea, diarrhea, a metallic taste in
>> the mouth, glossitis, and abdominal pain.
>>
>> Dr. de Bortoli and associates theorize that combining lactoferrin and
>> probiotics with the standard therapy "provokes a synergist effect by
>> launching attacks from different directions against H. pylori that
>> could lead to a complete clearance of the bacterial infection."
>>
>> Am J Gastroenterol. 2007;102:951-956.
>>
>> Reuters Health Information 2007. © 2007 Reuters Ltd.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Who loves ya.
>> Tom
>
> I had digestive problems for years and several useless doctors made all
> kinds of tests, including a colonoscopy and found nothing. The last
doctor
> was making a list of further blood tests when I asked how about tests
for
> parasites and infections. She agreed and, when the results came back,
they
> indicated that my system was loaded with H Pylori. A double anti-biotic
> and
> a drug called Ranitidine fixed my system wthin a week. Wierdly, I had no
> problems at all with my stomach in all those years. That was a couple of
> months ago and now I'm perfectly normal, well as normal as I'll ever be
> ;-)
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