Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
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>BIO-CAT, Inc. -- a Virginia-based biotech company specializing in breakthrough enzyme product development -- has announced a global partnership with Kerry, the Taste & Nutrition company and their BIO-CAT Microbials, LLC probiotic products division. Effective June 2021, Kerry will lead the sales, marketing, and distribution of BIO-CAT's proprietary probiotic strain, OPTI-BIOME MB40®.
>OPTI-BIOME MB40® (Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264) is a non-GMO, highly-stable probiotic strain that the company says is an ideal ingredient for a wide array of dietary supplements and other related uses.
Source: https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bio-cat-announces-...
If anything, oral antibiotics are more tolerated by the body because half of them are eaten by stomach acid. With an IV, you're putting your kidneys to work.
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That's what MB40 is.
I don't see specific mention of MB40 on the packaging, but Walmart sells this for under $20.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfect...
For $16, I'll gamble that it will help.
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Many surgical patients with staph complications actually infected themselves, and did not acquire their strains from their hospital surroundings.
My coworker lost a leg to an infection in 2008 after a joint replacement. It is unfortunate that this procedure was not in place at that time.
"Many surgical patients with staph complications actually infected themselves, and did not acquire their strains from their hospital surroundings."
Community acquired Staph is a huge thing. The number of people who get infected from yoga mats, scrapes and cuts playing sports, etc. is huge. The NFL had a problem in locker rooms too a few years back.
Highly recommend. Works fast too.
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I have a recurrent impetigo infection on my face stemming from dry skin / eczema, with my partner as a possible source of re-infection. I'm hoping this product will make it a less common occurrence, as it's quite debilitating and has persisted for over half a year. The dermatologists I've seen have been of little assistance, only presenting me with drug-based treatments (monthly injections, immunosuppressants) and no advice for treating the root cause.
Topical antibiotics seem to be the only temporary solution for now, as systemic antibiotics seem to have no effect.
Again: most strains of S. aureus can not cause a serious infection in someone healthy. Antibiotic abuse drives the selective pressure towards resistant strains.
By contrast, a probiotic is sort of an ecological approach. Rather than targeting the staph directly, you just introduce something benign that competes with the staphylococcus, preventing it from dominating the environment (i.e. overwhelming your body).
I have an on again off again relationship with culturing kefir. Regular consumption of kefir produced from healthy cultures definitely feels like an immunity shield from food poisoning. I like to imagine that any pathogenic bacteria that find their way into my gut are roughed up by the locals.
But the Bacillus subtilis also appears to be readily available. I think if I were faced with a potentially life-threatening staph infection, I'd happily do all of the above: antibiotics, probiotics, and sure, phages too. The latter two seem like low risk things to try (EDIT: but I'd probably at least run the idea past my doc)
I like it after at least a couple weeks in the fridge.
There are hundreds of documented strains, and they don't all eat/produce the same things (at least not in the same ratios)
Some have been documented to reduce inflammation and restore tight-junction function in epithelial walls (where other strains did not).
Others have been shown to reverse the accumulation of α-synuclein. That has been implicated as a cause or symptom of Parkinson's disease.
That is, I was quite worried that something unpleasant would take it as an invitation to colonize my gut instead, so I ate a LOT of live culture yoghurt. Quite unpleasant when you can't digest anything properly (I'll spare the details) but I rapidly recolonized my gut and restored things to working order.
The disturbing sequela was that my interest in certain foods after this process was quite different from my interest before I was sick. It makes me wonder if I ever wanted a donut (or coffee) or if it was some other species signalling to my brain that I wanted to eat such a thing. Nowadays I have little interest in such things.
* surely not reset completely to 0. And while I didn't want that to happen I am super glad I got those antibiotics!
I had a really bad infection for a couple weeks after some food poisoning, in and out of the hospital. After that point and recovering with lingering effects for a couple years, my diet changed quite a bit as well. Not sure if for similar reasons, but gravitated away from previous foods/habits.
It’s an acquired taste for sure.
It's still an acquired taste.
Friendly correction: Radiolab is a production of (my former client) WNYC, not NPR.
My sense is that the creative freedom and energy at WNYC is substantially different than in the NPR editorial process.
If you are listening to Radiolab on KQED or WBUR, then NPR had little to do with it (and, I argue, it shows! In a good way!).
Many local public radio stations are member stations of both NPR and PRX, but we never hear people call them "PRX stations". Why? I think the answer is almost certainly because the NPR and CPB fact sheets and on-air station identifications refer to them that way.
But nearly all of the best programs that are distributed to our local public radio stations are actually being ground out by energetic, lesser-known producers and journalists at much smaller local radio stations, with which they identify much more strongly than they identify with a particular syndicator.
If you like Radiolab, understand how the unique culture at WNYC creates a show like that, and consider that your esteem for public radio may be more nuanced than NPR.
Radiolab is definitely one of my favorite radio shows though. The first time I heard it, it was the internal monologue of somebody having an existential crisis on an airline, which was equally bizarre and hysterical.
As for the notion that I work in radio: I have flirted with radio, including a stint at my college radio station and a one-year contract at WNYC, which was a formative part of my career for sure. But I work in cryptography at the moment, and I'm working on pushing boundaries regarding publishing of media via blockchain tech in the hopes that the spirit of public radio can live on in a new economy.
So let's look at today's schedule for KLCC and assess the degree to which it is an "NPR station":
* PRX Remix - a fun, easy, and affordable way to keep your station interesting. I actually wrote some of the syndication code that became this project during my time at WNYC. I have no idea whether it's still in use. ~Not NPR~
5:00 AM Weekend Edition Saturday - as NPR as it gets. I believe this is recorded and produced at the new NPR headquarters in Washington DC. 10:00 AM Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! - Yep, also NPR. And actually, this show exemplifies the kind of annoying, on-the-nose content that sometimes bugs me about NPR. But the production quality is solid, I'll give it that.
11:00 AM Live Wire - I assume this is the podcast. Very much ~Not NPR~, this podcast is a great example of a small group of passionate radio artists punching way above their weight.
12:00 PM This American Life - I suspect that many people think that this show is NPR because of the cadence, production value, and subject matter, but it isn't. This show is recorded and produced at WBEZ and syndicated via PRX. If I may dare suggest: it seems to me that this show is quite proud of being ~Not NPR~
1:00 PM Radiolab - Quintessential WNYC, produced in the bullpen on the 9th floor of the WNYC HQ in Hudson Square, NYC, with plenty of high-quality cannabis and kickass coffee from the nearby La Colombe or Ground Support. Many aspiring producers and audio techs have been given a shot over the years, and no two segments sound quite alike. ~Not NPR~
2:00 PM Travel with Rick Steves - An unusual but perhaps trailblazing phenomenon, this show is engineered, produced, _and_ distributed by Steves and his friends personally in a studio they built specifically for this show. Obviously Rick does amazing work. ~Not NPR~
3:00 PM Eye 5 - KLCC local content, coming to you over the air right from your neck of the woods. No syndication needed. ~Not NPR~
5:00 PM All Things Considered - The only show on this schedule that's even more central to NPR than Weekend Edition. 6:00 PM All Songs Considered - Also NPR. 6:30 PM Alt.Latino - Also NPR.
7:00 PM Dead Air - Another KLCC local show. I might listen in. :-) 9:00 PM Folk Alley - Similar format to Live Wire, Folk Alley produces both a full-time stream and a curated and narrated show, distributed by PRX. ~Not NPR~ 11:00 PM PRX Remix - ~Not NPR~
So, the only parts of today's schedule that make KLCC an "NPR Station" is the morning content from 5-10 and the evening content from 5-6:30. Other than those hours, it looks like they have worked very hard to put together an enriching and diverse schedule which includes syndicated content, independent content, and local content.
I'd say KLCC is much bigger than an outlet for accessing NPR, and deserves recognition and funding consistent with the work that they put in from their comparatively small operation and studio.
generally, staph is a commensal on skin and other surface tissues. you will never get rid of it there. problems come when it makes its way into things like surgical wounds.
I have been suffering from a staph infection on the scalp for the last decade. I am colonized, and every time I do a cycle on Doxycycline I am clean for 4-5 days and it's back... The symptoms are puss filled boils on the head, sometimes bloody. Sometimes known as folliculitis.
I believe I am colonized, but I also believe my cat is also infected and we mutually retransmit it to each other as we share pillows.
It all started in the nose 10 years ago, unlocked all sorts of issues and permanently damaged it. Then it spread to the scalp. It seriously reduced my QoL and made visits to a barber a challenge. It increased my hair shedding aka more prone to balding.
I and my immediately family, all of suffer from forms of Thalassemia ranging from mild, to severe. I have a form called Beta Thalassemia Minor, if it affects my immune system.