Lactobacillus

Question: What brand of lactobacillus acidophilus should i take for bacterial vaginosis? I heard if I took lactobacillus acidophilus it would help clear up a bacterial infection. Ive had BV before but it seems to be a re-occuring thing all of a sudden. I was wondering if there was a certain brand or product that would work best. Any suggestions?

Answer: well i used to get them from the store but i kept getting infections. so i went to stronger pills with more strains. it works great. so go to a health food store. they are better. other good herbal remedies are colidal silver and tea tree oil.

Question: What type of agar is best for Lactobacillus Acidophilus? Lactobacillus Acidophilus grows best in pH 4-5 or lower at 45ºC. I'm looking for agar that is not too hard to get but is as near as possible to the pH level. Suggest a few types? What is the pH for agarose gel?

Answer: agarose gel ,gellidium amansii

Question: lactobacillus count media and method, How do I get a help? I will be culture and count lactobacillus genus flora in the poultry intestine.

Answer: You will need a specific growth media for lactobacilli called Rogosa. If you think you want to count other lactic acid bacteria, e.g. enterococci, pedioccoci, streptococci, then use MRS (deMan Rogosa and Sharpe) media instead. Collect your sample (0.1 or 1 g), mix with a saline solution in a 1:9 ratio (10x dilution); then make serial dilutions taking 1 mL aliquotes and tranfering to new tubes with the 9-mL saline solution. This way your dilution tubes will have a 10-fold decreasing concentration of bacteria. Finally you pipet 1 mL from each tube and plate with the appropriate media. Incubate at 34C for 48hs and count the plates with colonies between 30 and 300, to reduce your error. If you count 100 colonies from an aliquote that was diluted 3 times, you'll have 100x10x10x10=100,000 colonies per mL from that tube. Make sure you consider previous dilutions when preparing the sample.

Question: What is the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species of lactobacillus vulgaris? I can't find the kingdom, phylum and the others of lactobacillus vulgaris. Can you help me with the answer or a website that i can go for some information about the lactobacillus vulagris?

Answer: Kingdom - Bacteria Phylum - Firmicutes Class - Bacilli Order - Lactobacillales Family - Lactobacillaceae Genus - Lactobacillus Species - vulgaris

Question: If a yogurt has lactobacillus, will it say so on the label? I bought plain all natural yogurt, but it doesnt say anywhere on the packaging that it contains lactobacillus, does that mean it doeant?

Answer: The biggest problem you face buying that commercial garbage, pasteurized, homogenized, yogurt is that it contains lots of sugar, altered proteins and fatty acids, and very little nutrients in it to allow good bacteria to grow. If it does contains some good bacteria, like lactobacillus, it will be very little. Lactobacillus bacteria is usually destroyed in the pasteurization process. This is why when people eat or drink pasteurized dairy products they get lactose intolerance. RAW milk and RAW dairy products contain lots of that good bacteria and people do not get lactose intolerance from eating and drinking those products. The very best thing you can do is what i do, make your own kefir, sauerkraut, yogurt, cottage cheese from RAW DAIRY that comes from grass fed cows. The benefits are incredible and it's easy to do. EDIT: For anyone to say RAW MILK is dangerous is to show complete disregard for the facts. If cows are fed grass, the amount of sugar in the grass is far less than cows that are fed grains that have a high sugar content. The bacteria that gets established in GRAIN FED COWS gut becomes highly inflammatory and causes the cows to become sick and greatly shortens their lives. Milks derived from these cows must be pasteurized to kill all the human pathogens that are produced. In fact, dairy cows fed typical grains instead of all grass end up living 1/4 the life expectancy. Pasteurization does NOT kill all the germs either. It leaves about 2% to 3% bad coliforms that have been identified in about 92% of all crones disease patients. Here's a great web site to go look at to get a real education about RAW MILK being made the correct way: www.organicpastures.com There is a lot of psuedoscience being promoted by people that have no clue what they are talking about that have no nutritional training. Look at the facts from real experts. Many of these experts testified in front of the California legislature that tried to ban RAW MILK. The results after the facts were presented was that RAW MILK is not only safe, but superior in many ways to pasteurized milk. The head of the agricultural division in charge of the milk is now drinking RAW MILK from grass fed cows. good luck to you

Question: When should I take the Lactobacillus Acidophilus? I have to take metronidazole for a BV and I want to take Lactobacillus Acidophilus with it. When should I take the Lactobacillus Acidophilus? Before? After?

Answer: Take Acidophilus with a glass of cold water between meals and store it in the fridge, as heat kills the live bacteria so drinking hot tea or coffee while taking the capsules will render it of no use at all! Taking a supplement that contains both Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacteria lactis helps improve your digestive tract as they work better together. Try to find a supplement that contains at least 5 million live bacteria. You will need to consider changing your diet - Bacterial vaginosis can be caused by an overgrowth of Candida. Candida are part of bacterial group in your digestive tract that when the colonies grow begin to cause yeast infections throughout the body. There is another question from someone about yeast infections and I've copied the answer below for you - hope it helps! Yeast infections usually stem from an internal cause, quite often from the digestive system, and then circulate in the blood around the body often making an appearance in the vagina, mouth, in the joints, as athlete's foot as well as many other wide ranging symptoms. Often women suffer from yeast infections when they have finished a course of antibiotics. This is because the antibiotics kill any beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract, allowing the proportion of 'harmful' bacteria to grow and cause yeast infections. This is often Candida albicans, a very common fungal yeast infection among women which is quite hard to fully get rid of without alterations in diet. To tackle the infection, it is wise to reduce all sugar intake, and this includes fruit for the first few weeks, as sugar feeds the Candida spores. This can be quite difficult as many foods contain hidden sugar and we always see fruit as quite healthy - it is healthy but not for Candida sufferers. Drink plenty of water and perhaps consider taking a supplement of Caprylic acid (magnesium caprylate), a natural fatty acid derived from coconuts. This will help to kill the Candida but it may take a few weeks if you have had a yeast infection for a while or it is recurrent. Take a probiotic too - bio-yoghurts or Acidophilus - as this will help redress the balance of 'good' bacteria in your digestion. You may feel a little worse at first but this is a sing that the Candida is dying off. When the infection dies off, it releases toxins into the bloodstream causing occasional headaches, nausea and some tiredness but this will be short lived. This may seem obvious but try to avoid bread. Bread contains yeast as a raising and activating agent and you don't want to add more yeast, you want to help take it away! Yeast infections are surprisingly widespread so don't think there is anything unnatural about discovering you have one. They are hard to get rid of but with some resolve, determination and the right diet you'll be yeast free!

Question: Is there any real difference between Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG? According to the Culturelle marketing literature it contains the best and most studied strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus called "LGG." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_rhamnosus But there is another cheaper probiotic from a big pharmacy chain that contains a slightly different strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus. Is there really any difference?

Answer: never heard of it

Question: What can I buy that contain Lactobacillus Casei DG? A friend of mine suggest a pharmacy product from Italy, but obviously I can't buy it in uk, so i'm looking to buy something that should be the same. The name of the ingredient (ferment) is Lactobacillus Casei DG from human species. Can you suggest another product? Thanks

Answer: you can find probiotics in yogurt & from the health food section of any store.

Question: Is lactobacillus pills bad for pregnant woman with yeast infections who can't go to the doctor? I bought this nature's secret probiotic pill which has good bacteria that kills the bad bacteria that yeast infections give you. It says for pregnant people not to take it, but if you really need something for this problem, should you take it? What other ways can you naturally get rid of a yeast infection?

Answer: I wouldn't recommend taking it til checking with a doctor to see what they say. I would recommend checking with the city health department to see if they offer a free women's health clinic that can evaluate this further for you.

Question: How is a culture of lactobacillus acidophilus prepared commercially? I need to know what type of agar is usually used, what temperature it is kept at and any extra details. I'm doing a science experiment for a school project and I need the info for the control urgently. Can someone help? tarik, wads the measurements thingie mean? DX I'm only a sec 2 student. lol. i don't even noe where to get the bacteria.

Answer: Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus are Yoghurt bacteria. Casein hydrolysate (3-4g/l) with 10-20g/l lactose, or just milk ( 250-300ml/l) and agar (7-8g/l). Temperature 35-40°C.

Question: where can I buy live lactobacillus in USA? to make real home made yogurt? I don't want to make the one based on a previous batch of yogurt, I want the bacillus so I can make fresh yogurt every day, sour yogurt, like Keffir.

Answer: yogurt and keffir are two different things. They taste similar, but are different Kefir contains several major strains of friendly bacteria not commonly found in yogurt, Lactobacillus Caucasus, Leuconostoc, Acetobacter species, and Streptococcus species. It also contains beneficial yeasts, such as Saccharomyces kefir and Torula kefir. You can buy that bacteria here: https://shop.bodyecology.com/products.asp?dept=1002

Question: How does Lactobacillus acidophilus reduce serum cholesterol in the human body? Any website references is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer: L. acidophilus reduces serum cholesterol in an unknown mechanism according to researchers in the article I will site below. However, it is believed that the bile acids are deconjugated in the intestinal tract resulting in poor reuptake of the bile salts (as you may know the body recycles most of the bile excreted into the small intestine). As a general rule, conjugated molecules are more soluble and more likely to pass the plasma membrane resulting in reuptake, so to reiterate if a molecule is unconjugated it is less likely to be taken up by the intestinal lining. The increased excretion of bile (caused by L. acidophilus converted it to unconjugated bile) results in increased synthesis of bile in the liver, the liver utilizes cholesterol to produce bile, if more cholesterol is used to produce bile then serum cholesterol levels will be reduced. Take a look at the article.

Question: What's the best Type of Lactobacillus for vaginal infections? What's the best type of Lactobacillus for the vagina to help clear out/prevent infections? Like Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus bifidus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus acidophilus...? I really want to clear away the infection naturally so please help me out! And thank you <3!!!!!!

Answer: and, how do you plan on getting it to you vagina? are you just going to take yogurt and smear it around down there? use it as lube, maybe?

Question: How many people are victims to lactobacillus acidophilus? Also how many victims died from it if it kills? I would really like to see answers because I tried to search everything on the internet but I couldn't find nothing so can someone help me?

Answer: www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-14437283.html web.mst.edu/~microbio/BIO221_1998/Proteus_0x19.html Either site should answer your quetions.

Question: Is there a probiotic that contains Lactobacillus sporogenes as well as Bifidobacterium infantis? Anyone know of one? I have found a few that claim to have both, but once I got to the manufacturers website they only have one or the other.

Answer: go to your local nature store for help and good luck to you.......

Question: I am going to start taking Lactobacillus acidophilus pills. How many should I take per day to help? I am taking them for IBS and to prevent yeast infections.

Answer: You might start with 2 in the morning with breakfast & 2 in evening.....then after about a month reduce it back to 2 a day unless you have a flare up.