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A well known immunologist dr. ing. Ger Rijkers has this to say on C. Difficile: "Clostridium Difficile is an ordinary gut bacterium that can become dominant because of the antibiotics. Then you can get infection of the colon. The patient has strong diarrhea and risks dehydration. Antibiotics will worsen the problem, because it can become resistant for antibiotics. What helps is the probiotic Lactobacillus Plantarum. It helps to bring back the balance. We have seen major results of this the past year" (2008)
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Interesting: In 2008, Beatriz del Rio studied the use of live recombinant Lactobacillus plantarum as an oral delivery vehicle for a Lyme disease vaccine to invoke a protective immune response in mice. Because L. plantarum can survive in the GI tract, it has been long considered for this type of research. L. plantarum successfully expressed vaccine antigens inducing immunity in the mice infected with Lyme disease.
(Beatriz del Rio, Raymond J. Dattwyler, Miguel Aroso, Vera Neves, Luciana Meirelles, Jos F. M. L. Seegers, and Maria Gomes-Solecki1. (2008) Oral Immunization with Recombinant Lactobacillus plantarum Induces a Protective Immune Response in Mice with Lyme Disease. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 15., 1429-1435)
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In 2006, Michael Schultz studied the effects of treatment with Lactobacillus plantarum 299v on immunodeficient mice prone to the development of colitis. The study found that L. plantarum 299v administered orally with water to interleukin-10 deficient mice produced significant results of reduced immune-mediated colitis. This suggests that L. plantarum 299v has the potential to be used against clinical inflammatory bowel disease.
(Schultz, Michael, Claudia Veltkamp , Levinus A. Dieleman , Wetonia B. Grenther , Priscilla B. Wyrick , Susan L. Tonkonogy , R. Balfour Sartor, M.D. (2006). Lactobacillus plantarum 299V in the treatment and prevention of spontaneous colitis in interleukin-10-deficient mice. Wiley Interscience, 8 (2), 71-80)
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lpkayak
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is that different from sbc...i take sbc to not get c-diff
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sammy
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Thanks Sammy, maybe this thread could be sticky cause the info might help a lot in nasty circumstances.
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