Yogurt a day keeps yeast infection away.Scientists have just completed the first controlled experiment validating one of folk medicine's favorite treatment: eating yogurt can prevent vaginal yeast infections. "We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. yet why it works," said Dr. Eileen Hilton who conducted the study at the Jewish Medical Center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The researchers studied 13 women for a year. For six months, the women ate eight ounces of yogurt a day, and for another six months skipped the yogurt. They were tested for levels of yeast colonization. The women averaged 0.3 infections while taking yogurt compared to 2.5 infections when yogurt was not part of their diet. Findings were published in the March issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine Annals of Internal Medicine (Ann Intern Med) is an academic medical journal published by the American College of Physicians (ACP). It publishes research articles and reviews in the area of internal medicine. Its current editor is Harold C. Sox. . The yogurt culture, lactobacillus lactobacillus Any of the rod-shaped, gram-positive (see gram stain) bacteria that make up the genus Lactobacillus. They are widely distributed in animal feeds, manure, and milk and milk products. , is found in abundance in the vagina of healthy women. "It is surprising that lactobacillus ingested in·gest tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. would have an effect on the vagina," said De. Seymour Klebenoff, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. "Our studies would suggest that you would have to introduce it into the vagina. But that doesn't mean their findings are not valid. I just don't know the explanation." Many brands of yogurt do not contain lactobacillus culture, and the study found that pills containing lactobacillus were too contaminated with other organisms to be helpful. |
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