Does Microbial therapy have any effect of the bodys normal flora? Please Explain?
Microbial therapy is very useful in allowing a compromised digestive system to restore its normal function. Normal gut flora help to digest some foods in the stomach, and are found also in the colon. When these bacteria are killed, perhaps with antibiotics, it is often beneficial to restore them through microbial therapy. However, some microbial therapy has proven very dangerous. When microbes that have been found useful when introduced into the stomach via the mouth or gastric tube were introduced into the small intestine, a greater incidence of death occurred. These same microbes found in the stomach area are not normally found in the intestines. The mechanism is not known exactly, but researchers speculated that the bacteria may have used oxygen from surrounding tissues, starving them of oxygen and resulting in tissue death.
