01/25/2020
✨👶🏼Probiotic helps breast-fed babies beat antibiotic resistant germs, study says A study done by researchers at UC Davis were able to significantly reduce the number of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the intestines of newborn babies by giving them a daily dose of probiotics during their first few weeks after birth. Dr. Mark Underwood, a neonatologist and senior author on the study, said he expected to see a drop in the pathogens, but he was surprised that newborns who received the probiotic had 90% fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria than infants who were fed only breast milk. "The intervention has to happen while the (infants') immune system is still developing, still learning what's foreign and what's OK, so a baby is born with the only protection they got against disease: the antibodies they got from mom's placenta and the antibodies they get from mom's milk," Underwood said. "They don't really make their own antibodies, and as they are learning how to do that, they have to recognize what's OK versus what's not OK. Exposing them to more good bacteria early in life is historically how the immune system is instructed." The probiotic product was called used was called Evivo. Evivo uses a good bacterium known as Bifidobacterium infantis. "We found that a pretty short intervention—the combination of a short course of probiotic and then mom breast-feeding for several months had a beneficial effect on the baby's bacteria at a time when the immune system is developing," Underwood said. "Even after two months, so a full month after they stopped the probiotic, they still were dominated by this Bifidobacterium infantis that we gave them, and that's really unusual." Click the link in our bio to read more! ✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wLxbNh_eK/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
