The role of probiotics in women with recurrent urinary tract infections

Abstract

Ali Serdar Gözen, et al.; Robot-assisted vasovasostomy and vasoepididymostomy: Current status and review of the literature.

Probiotics in Medicine: A Long Debate

“…Development of multi-drug resistance has led doctors to look for milder prophylactic therapies in order to minimize the high cost of therapies (181).…”

“…Probiotic effects on urinary tract infections remain controversial ( 181 – 183 ) ( Table 6 ). While a team states that there is no benefit from probiotics administration ( 182 ), other scientists observe a shortening of the average duration of illness, as well as a considerable reduction of the infection rate ( 181 , 184 ).…”

Clinical Pharmacists in Chronic Care

“…Although there have been few studies on the determentof RUTIs without use of antibiotics within the past years, interest probiotics has increased over the years. Reviews by Akgül et.al, 2018 concluded that evidence of probiotic appliancein UTIs is not yet sufficient to recommend use of probiotics [316]. Different vaccines based on the whole cells (killed or live-attenuated vaccines) and antigens (subunits, toxins and conjugated vaccines) have been evaluated against UTIs pathogens, as reported by Asadi et.al, 2019 [317].…”

“…stressful life [438], urban living, mastectomy [439], lower socioeconomic status [435], [440], genetic predisposition, African-American origin, not having children or breastfeeding, early menstruation/ late menopause, obesity, alcohol abuse, HRT after menopause, benign breast conditions or having breast proliferation, using contraceptives and exposure to diethylstilbestrol [441], age between 40-60, late age first pregnancy, smoking [442], abortion history [443] are the associated factors. Distressingly, the 5-year cumulative mortality remains unacceptably high at 50%, primarily due to a late-stage presentation [316]. Wearing bra is not associated with breast cancer risk [443] but wearing (tight) bras for many hours and having breast implants [442], [445] may have associations.…”

Evaluation of effi cacy & safety of oral fi xed dose combination of probiotics in bacterial vaginosis

“…DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17352/jgro.000068excellent results in terms of effi cacy and 60.3% and 39.7% rated as excellent and good in terms of safety profi le respectively.DiscussionUrogenital infections not caused by sexual transmission, namely yeast vaginitis, bacterial vaginosis, and urinary tract infection remain a major medical problem in terms of the number of women affl icted each year[7].When vaginal fl ora is examined, it is known that microorganisms of Lactobacillus spp. are dominant bacteria and form urinary microbiota which demonstrates antimicrobial activity[8].Recurrence rate of BV remains high with use of antimicrobials and such treatments are not designed to restore the lactobacilli. Antimicrobial drug resistance remains a root cause for BV recurrence [9].…”