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How to treat dysbiosis.

Dysbiosis is a large-scale violation of microflora (quantitative composition and balance between bacteria, viruses, fungal, protozoa and other microorganisms - human symbionts), accompanied by serious dysfunctions of many systems of the human body.

The term "dysbiosis" is usually used in the case when the balance of all types of microflora of the human body is disturbed, and the term "dysbiosis" defines a particular case of dysbiosis, when the imbalance of colonies of microorganisms is accompanied by violations of only the bacterial composition of the microflora.

The reasons for the development of dysbiosis are a reason to change the approach to the treatment of microbial infections, as well as to revise the lifestyle and diet. Chronic stress, improper nutrition, inappropriate and uncontrolled treatment of infectious diseases with antimicrobial drugs causes irreparable damage to the human microflora and leads to an imbalance of the body as a whole.

The treatment of dysbiosis is complicated by the fact that it is artificially impossible to restore 100% of the quantitative balance in the ecosystem of organisms living in symbiosis with humans. For example, anaerobic microorganisms are poorly cultured. You can only try to regulate the number of certain microorganisms, taking drugs with the participation of beneficial microflora and reducing the growth of opportunistic and/or pathogenic microbes colonies.

Usually signs of dysbiosis are manifested in the inflammatory processes of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, vagina. Dysbiosis can be accompanied by itching, discharge, diarrhea, and constipation. Dysbiosis give rise to pustular infection, furunculosis.

How to treat dysbiosis:

Analyze the composition of the microflora (bacteriological tests - crops and/or biochemical analysis, mass spectrometry) and investigate the susceptibility of the detected pathogens to various antimicrobial drugs.

Bacteriological analysis gives an idea of what kind of microorganisms and in what quantity are in the studied environment (smear from the throat and nose, sputum, feces, vaginal smear). In bacteriological analysis, the cavity microflora is examined. Normally, this analysis looks like this (analysis of feces for dysbiosis):

For an adult:

Bifidobacteria - 10⁸ - 10¹⁰

Lactobacillus - 10⁶ - 10⁸

Esherichy - 10⁶ - 10⁸

Bacteroids - 10⁷ - 10⁸

Clostridium - 10³ - 10⁵

Streptococci - 10⁵ - 10⁷

Coagulase-negative, non-hemolytic staphylococci - no more than 10⁴

Plasma-coagulating, hemolytic staphylococci - no more than 10³

Pathogenic staphylococci - should not be;

Peptostreptococci and Peptococci - 10⁵ - 10⁶

Candida fungi - no more than 10⁴

Gram-negative non-fermenting rods, opportunistic enterococci - 10⁵ - 10⁸

Pathogenic enterococci - should not be;

Measure - the number of units of a microorganism (literally CFU is a colony-forming unit) per 1 gram of the test material)

Biochemical analysis determines the presence of microorganisms in certain studied cavities by a set of fatty acids, since acids are a product of the vital activity of microflora. In biochemical analysis, the parietal microflora and microflora of the cavities are examined.
Mass spectrometry can identify up to 170 species of bacteria and fungal microorganisms.
Eliminate the excess amount of conditionally pathogenic microflora:
- Stimulating and supporting immunity (immunomodulators, immunostimulants)
- Bacteriophages (with the appropriate bacterial opportunistic microflora)
- Antifungal drugs as needed
- Antimicrobials as needed (Antibiotic antibiotic therapy should only be used in extreme cases).
Restore (plant) normal microflora:
- Replacement therapy with probiotics (bifidobacteria, lactobacilli, colibacteria and their combinations)
- Eating prebiotics.

The treatment of dysbiosis is carried out in the framework of restoring the bacterial balance with the intake of drugs containing bacteria, prebiotics and bacteriophages that suppress opportunistic bacteria.