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Selected gastro-intestinal symptoms and liver disease; Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2011

Abstract

The work deals with the explanation of symptoms in gastroenterology. Such as: ascites, abdominal pain and discomfort, dysphagia and odynophagia, globus, foetor ex ore (halitosis), haematemesis and melena, hepatomegaly, jaundice and cholestasis, bloating, flatulencea borborygmus, nausea and vomiting, decreased appetite, noncardiac chest pain, pneumoperitoneum, diarrhea, pyrosis, rumination, eructate and aerofagie aerogastrie, splenomegaly, intestinal obstruction (ileus), constipation, water brash, Elevated "liver" tests.

Part Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. The word "probiotic" derives from Greek and loosely translated means "for life".

To develop clinical effect, it is necessary to probiotic, ie bacterial culture got into the intestine through a low gastric pH is damaged as little as possible, it is necessary to ensure its acidorezistenci. Next to it, however, implies also resistance to the enzymes present in our digestive system, or growth under anaerobic conditions.

Connect to more demand for their non-toxicity, we mainly arise genera Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus and Lactobacilus etc. (commercially exploited are other organisms, even as part of a series of medicinal products - such as Saccharomyces boulardii or non-pathogenic Escherichia coli (strain Nissle) and others). Prebiotics usually understand the indigestible food components that have a favorable effect on the flora of the digestive tract to its stimulating effect on growth and metabolic activity of one or a limited number of bacterial strains, which improves digestion and also long term health of the patient.

Sometimes the concept of synbiotics is used then an umbrella term for products containing prebiotic and probiotic at the same time.