Lactobacillus Acidophilus Benefits
Helps Prevent Yeast Infections
Urogenital infections such as bacterial vaginosis, yeast vaginitis and urinary tract infections affect millions of women. In many instances, the affliction recurs, particularly due to a buildup in resistance to certain antimicrobial therapies. L. acidophilus may prove to be effective in inhibiting the growth of candida albicans, which is the fungus responsible for many of these infections. An abstract from a 2003 article in the Post Graduate Medical Journal of the British Medical Journal states: “daily oral intake of probiotic strains Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus fermentum RC-14, resulted in some asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis patients reverting to a normal lactobacilli dominated vaginal microflora.” (4, 5) “When lactobacilli are introduced vaginally … there will be an impact on the subject’s microflora. If this is dominated by yeast, Gram-negative coliforms and anaerobes, or gram-positive cocci, then the outcome might significantly benefit the patient.” (6)