Not exact matches
Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor
of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards
of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind
of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between
vaginal and amniotic
flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.
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Vaginal flora Beneficial bacteria — notably members
of the Lactobacillus family — inhabit the vagina, secreting lactic acid and fending off hostile invaders like the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.
«Most people would have expected it to be a
vaginal flora,» he says, because
of its close proximity.
Candida albicans is a type
of yeast normally found in small numbers on the skin, or in the mouth, gut, or
vaginal flora in about 15 to 60 percent
of the population.
Vaginal birth, rubbing in the stuff babies are born with on their skin, breastfeeding, cosleeping, wearing your baby... all contribute to lots
of gut
flora growth.
Burning and heat can also change the
vaginal flora and change the balance
of good and bad bacteria that then creates the perfect environment for yeast, which women don't want especially during pregnancy,» says Dr. Moore.
Here is a list
of some
of the factors that affect our
flora and predispose us to developing
vaginal infections:
Maternal inflammatory states and diseases such as type 1 diabetes can increase risk
of surgical birth, as can interventions such as ultrasound, 14 monitoring, and the epidural.15 Without
vaginal transfer
of mom's
flora, the baby misses out on the most important inoculation.
Lastly, in this podcast, Dr. Erica Sonnenburg talks about how C - sections, have a negative effect on the infant's gut due to the lack
of exposure to bacteria present in the mother's
vaginal canal, and how the use
of formula deprives the infant not only from the good bacteria present in Mom's gut but also from special carbohydrates in breast milk that are good for the infant gut
flora known as HMOs or human milk oligosaccharides.
The infant tends to acquire the
flora swallowed from the
vaginal fluid at the time
of delivery.
Customers report using Ultimate
Flora probiotics for a range
of complaints including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), intestinal parasites, yeast infections (
vaginal and intestinal), abdominal bloating, gas, diarrhea and constipation.
Since the
vaginal system is populated with bacteria, women are more susceptible to urinary tract and yeast infections than men because
of the disruption in the
vaginal flora.
For babies delivered by C - section, there is now a method called «
vaginal seeding» whereby some
of these
flora can still be delivered to the infant after delivery.
Dr. Wilson discusses the immune modulating effects
of inoculation with the mother's
vaginal flora during delivery.
These bacteria form the foundations
of a healthy digestive
flora and originate from healthy maternal
vaginal and fecal
flora.
Clinical signs
of pyometra present after four to eight weeks after estrus (heat); during estrus the cervix is open as the female is looking to accept a mate, this is the time that an infectious agent (usually E. coli) infect the uterus; if the diarrhoea has been occurring for more than four weeks, it is possible that it may have contributed to the pyometra, but usually pyometra is caused by bacteria from the urinary tract or normal
vaginal flora.