Colitis is an inflammatory bowel condition in which the large intestine is inflamed; the intestinal lining ulcerates, resulting in diarrhea with blood and pus. The condition can become chronic and dilapidating unless treated, among the best natural cures the one commonly recommended these days is Probiotics For Colitis Treatment. Although you may feel it is unconventional introducing microbes to cure a health condition, but its curative powers are undoubted.

How Probiotics Help Treat Colitis

Colitis is associated with uncomfortable symptoms like diarrhea, rectal bleeding, painful defecation and cramps. Probiotics have been effectively used in not only significantly reduce exacerbation of colitis symptoms, but also prevent relapse of the condition. Probiotics help in increasing the quantum of beneficial bacteria improving gut immunity and also motility. Probiotics also improve digestion and absorption of nutrients in the intestine.

 How To Use Probiotics To Treat Colitis

• Efficacy of probiotic therapy is dose and strain dependent; ideally a minimum of 5 to 10 million live microorganisms belonging to 2 to 3 strains are introduced in to the system
• Choice of probiotics is dependent on the health condition and it is necessary that it contains live microbes. Thus, food labels should be read carefully to find out exactly which microbes and expiration date of the product before consumption.
• Probiotics should be taken on a regular basis to prevent infection.
• Probiotics can be consumed in daily diet in the form of diary products like acidophilus milk, kefir, cultured milk, cultured buttermilk, and yogurt.
• Probiotics can also be added to daily diet by incorporating soy, rice or coconut milk with live microbes, pickled vegetables (Raw kimchi, sauerkraut or pickled beets, carrots or other vegetables), hummus, tempeh, formulated health bars, miso, cereals, and certain probiotic salad dressings.
• Probiotics are also available as a wide variety of dietary supplements in capsule, tablets or liquid forms for easy use.
• Probiotics work best when used along with prebiotics which increase their efficacy.

Best Probiotics for Colitis

Bacteria of the lactobacillus species, especially L. rhamnosus GG and the Bifidobacterium strain work as the best therapeutic aids to cure colitis. Saccharomyces boulardii a probiotic yeast is extremely helpful in preventing relapse of this condition. Some of the commercial products that can be consumed to experience the benefits are Acidophilus milk, Probiotic yoghurt, ThreeLac, Choice Super 8 High Potency Probiotic, Advanced Adult Probiotic, Saccharomyces boulardii+MOS, Saccharomyces boulardii  veg caps, Yakult, Align, Activia yogurt, EcoVag, Yoplait YoPlus, Stonyfield yogurt, Pearl, Dong Quai, Coco Biotic, Goodbelly splash, Goodbelly probiotic fruit drink, Mutaflor, Actimel, etc.

Things to Remember while Using Probiotic Therapy

Probiotics are safe to be used in any age group but its use is contraindicated in people who compromised immunologically like HIV patients.

Along with probiotics there are some quick and simple Home remedies for treatment of colitis, learn more about it from out article.

Image Credits: dailyperricone.com