The Influential Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in

Prevention and Cure of Various Ailments

Dr. SeyyedAli Jafari, associate professor of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences asserted: probiotics and prebiotics consumption (i.e. useful microbes) prevents respiratory infections up to 30-40%.

According to WebDa, Dr. Jafari said: human body abounds with probiotics or useful microbes that act and live in coexistence with human.

This Pediatric Gastrointestinal Subspecialist in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences added: the main target of effectiveness for probiotics is digestive system. These microbes encompass a range from oral cavity to the ending point of digestive system. Though they are more concentrated in colon and small intestine.

 “Probiotics play a crucial role in health, life expectancy and increasing immunity in the body”, he averred, “Long before the invention of probiotic drugs, humans used to consume dairy, yoghurt and Doogh which were abundant in useful microbes”.

Dr. Jafari asserted: through the passage of time, humans have found out that it is wise to separate the useful microbes and proliferate them to enter them in the body in the format of some products to be able to take benefit of their properties which are beneficial for human body. Consequently, a variety of probiotics were supplied and distributed in the market in pharmaceutical and nutritional products.

“So far, the probiotics-aided prevention and cure of gastrointestinal diseases, diarrhea infections, and severe infections in kids have been investigated and confirmed”, he added, “In the past, when someone had been inflicted with diarrhea, they had been given very soft starchy steamed rice with yoghurt or ground garlic in yoghurt. Today it is corroborated that these foods abound in useful microbes and are strongly effective in curing gastrointestinal diseases”.

Dr. Jafari asserted: Prebiotics are the materials that prepare the environment for the growth and evolution of probiotics or useful microbes. Prebiotics are abundant in fresh fruits and vegetables, garlic, banana and dairy products.

“Prebiotics are beneficial for kids’ chronic abdominal pains, diarrhea in kids, colon inflammatory disease and liver ailments in addition to the prevention and treatment of obesity”, he added.

This faculty member of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences stressed: there is no need to seek specific brand of commercial or pharmaceutical products to consume prebiotics, as our surrounding environment abounds in foods and nutrition that contain prebiotics.

“Avoiding fast foods, replacing soft drinks with Doogh, organic product consumption and avoiding and decreasing preservative containing foods and nutrition play a significant role in supplying these useful microbes for the body”, said he.

Emphasizing that the excess consumptions of antibiotics is confirmed to cause diarrhea, he averred: it is better to increase the consumption of dairy products such as yoghurt, milk and Doogh to increase the amount of useful microbes entering the body.