Dysbacteriosis of the intestine

Dysbacteriosis of the intestine has recently been exhibited about as often as the ARI during the epidemic. This situation is observed all over the world. So what is the intestinal dysbiosis - a real disease or just the inability of a doctor to correctly determine the root cause of abnormalities in the functioning of the intestine?

A person is constantly in contact with microorganisms in the environment, some of them generally live on the skin and mucous membranes, and even inside the body. The human intestine contains the largest number of them. It evolved so that both the human organism and microorganisms benefit from such cooperation (symbiosis).

Bacteria-symbionts receive substances that they need for life, as well as a favorable habitat. At the same time, they help to digest food, synthesize enzymes, regulate water-salt balance, and also provide absorption in the intestines of cholesterol, hormones, bile acids. In addition, they synthesize many vital substances (vitamins, hormones, antibiotics and so on), neutralize a variety of toxins. They have a huge role in maintaining immunity: useful microorganisms displace pathogenic bacteria entering the digestive tract, thereby preventing the settling of foreign microbes.

When the natural balance of microorganisms is disturbed (with a change in the quantitative and qualitative composition), intestinal dysbacteriosis develops. To this malfunction can result a great variety of reasons: from banal overeating or emotionally busy day to the occurrence of severe pathology. The only difference is that if the body is healthy, the violation will be very short-lived, the balance will fully recover within a few hours. In a weakened organism, the normal microflora perishes, giving way to pathogenic colonies and fungi.

Usually dysbacteriosis of the intestine is a standard diagnosis associated with the appearance of a stool disorder. If the diagnosis is made, then it is necessary to prescribe appropriate therapy, designed to restore the natural balance of microorganisms. However, after carrying out such therapy, the restoration of normal microflora can be just a temporary phenomenon.

Dysbacteriosis of the intestine in children has its own small feature: initially it is sterile. When the baby passes through the mother's ancestral ways, colonization begins with the microorganisms of the intestine. At the initial stages, this microflora is represented by various organisms that are uncharacteristic of the given localization, but gradually, under the influence of the growth factors of the mother's milk, it is replaced by a normal one. That is why it is necessary to start as early as possible and continue to breastfeed the baby as long as possible.

In children at an older age, the causes of dysbacteriosis are similar to those in adults: stress, malnutrition, taking antibiotics or other medications (for example, cytostatics), and so on.

Dysbacteriosis of the intestine is a microbiological phenomenon that characterizes the imbalance of the intestinal microflora. This is just a symptom that accompanies some disease or disruption of the normal functioning of the body, that is, there is an objective reason that caused the mass death of symbionts. All attempts to plant bacteria "from the outside" are doomed to failure. Since the reasons that caused their death did not disappear, the same will happen with the "newcomers".

Always need to establish the cause of dysbiosis, since the restoration of microflora is meaningless without identifying and eliminating the pathology that caused it.