Study: Kefir beats yogurt in the treatment of H. Pylori
Study: Kefir beats yogurt in the treatment of H. Pylori
In the present study, it is examined whether the addition of KEFIR to the standard tripher-antibiotic therapy improves effectiveness and tolerance in the treatment of the Helicobacter pylori infection. 82 patients with symptoms of dyspepsia and a confirmed H. Pylori infection took part in the randomized, double -blind study. The patients all received the standard triper antibiotic therapy, but 46 patients also drank a cup of kefir twice a day and the remaining 36 a cup of milk. The effectiveness of the treatment was checked after 45 days by a urea breath test and side effects were assessed using a questionnaire. It turned out that Kefir was significantly improved the extermination of H. Pylori infection and side effects were less common and less serious. The authors therefore recommend adding Kefir for standard treatment.
Details of the study:
Reference
BEKAR O, YILMAZ Y, Gulten M. Kefir improves the effectiveness and tolerability of triple therapy when the outer out of Helicobacter pylori. j med food. 2011; 14 (4): 344-347.
Design
randomized, double -blind study
participant
82 consecutive patients with symptoms of dyspepsia and heliobacter pylori infection confirmed by the urea breath test
study medication and dosage
All patients received a standard threesome antibiotic therapy h. Pylori infection consisting of a two -week treatment with Lansoprazole, amoxicillin and Clarithromycin. In addition, 46 of the patients drank a cup of kefir twice a day and the remaining 36 a cup of milk.
target parameter
A urea breath test was carried out 45 days after the start of the treatment. To assess the side effects, a questionnaire was filled out 15 days after the start of treatment.
most important knowledge
kefir improved extermination through triple antibiotic therapy. Pylori. The infection was eradicated in more than three quarters of the patients who drank kefir (36 of 46 (78.2 %))) compared to only half of those who received antibiotics plus placebo (18 of 36 (50.0 %)). Reported side effects occurred in those who received Kefir much less often and were less serious.
effects on practice
A cup of kefir twice a day should be added to the standard antibiotic protocol for the treatment of kefir h. Pylori . Kefir increased the effectiveness of standard treatment by about 30 %. The standard pharmaceutical protocols that use proton pump inhibitors and three separate antibiotics to treat these infections are not 100 % successful. The healing rates have dropped below 80 %.
yogurt does not seem to have the same benefit. In an article published in January 2011, it was reported that a yogurt should be used for treatment that contained several tribes of probiotic bacteria, together with triple antibiotic therapy h. Pylori infection "has also not improved h. Pylori neither the eradication rates nor the undesirable events of the treatment."
In the case of those who received Kefir, side effects occurred much less frequently and were less serious. Kefir differs significantly from yogurt. Yogurt is milk that is typically fermented by several trunks of lactic acid -producing bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus . Kefir, on the other hand, is "produced by microbial activity of" kefirkörners ", which have a relatively stable and specific balance of lactic acid bacteria and yeast." Yoghurt cultures do not contain yeast.
KEFIR has been very popular in recent years due to the many alleged health benefits, including "reducing the symptoms of lactose intolerance, stimulation of the immune system, reduction in cholesterol and antimutagen and anti -carcinogenic properties.
In the literature, Kefir is often thrown into a pot with other probiotic preparations, and search engines do not differentiate studies on Kefir from studies on yogurt. For example, a meta -analysis from 2009 to fermented dairy products and whether they improve h. Pylori The extermination made no difference between them. In this review, the combined data actually showed a small benefit: "Probiotic preparations on the basis of fermented milk improve." h. Increase the pylori repayment rates by approx. 5–15 %. ”
A meta -analysis from 2007, which combined data from previous studies, also examined the effect of probiotic preparations on h. Pylori eradication through triple antibiotic therapy. In this earlier work, slightly improved eradication rates were also reported - about 10 % compared to placebo. All studies in this earlier overview examined yogurt that was made from this lactobacilli acidophilus and no kefir. When Kefir increases the effectiveness of antibiotics h. Pylori does it improve the antibiotic effect against other types of intestinal infections? Possibly. In a publication from 2009, an open study is reported in which Kefir was apparently helpful in the treatment.
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