Probiotics
Probiotics are an important part of the complex world of foods that are good for health. They are foods that contain live bacteria. It is the bacteria and metabolites which they produce that give these probiotics their health-promoting properties.
The best known example of a probiotic is yogurt. The bacteria which are found in probiotic products such as yogurt, kefir and fermented vegetables usually aren't found in the human intestine. Because of this, bacteria eaten in probiotic products don't colonise the intestine, but are flushed and eliminated quickly from the body. The bacteria that live in the intestines make up a very large and very diverse population.
Awareness on how antibiotics slaughter good bacteria in the gut causing loosies in patients is relatively recent and it's only now that some doctors have started prescribing probiotics with antibiotics . But experts say probiotics ought to be prescribed in writing every time a short course of antibiotics is recommended to a patient .