Probiotics in pregnancy could have diabetes benefits: Study

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I am SO GLAD to see this study. I have a friend who had gestational diabetes, and continuing high blood sugars after pregnancy. She was also having chronic yeast infections and sinus infections. She had asked her doctor if there was a connection between the high blood sugars and the yeast infections, the doctor had said no. I talked her into going on a strict anti yeast diet, and she began having normal blood sugars. It's a shame most doctors don't know that not only can diabetes increase the chances of getting yeast infections, but yeast infections can actually cause high blood sugars.

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Probiotics-in-pregnancy-could-have-diabetes-benefits-Study

“Taken together, long-term health benefits for mothers and children may be conferred by balanced maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation and by promoting the healthy gut microbiota in the mother and the child. The results of the present study add weight to the argument that the continuing burden of Western lifestyle diseases is modifiable,” write the researchers.

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The intervention group received additionally intensive dietary counselling at every study visit provided by a nutritionist, the aim being a dietary intake complying with current recommendations, combined with conventional food products with favourable fat and fibre contents for use at home, said the researchers.

The intervention group was further randomised at baseline in a double-blind manner to receive either placebo capsules or probiotics (Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supplied by Valio, and Bifidobacterium lactis Bb12 supplied by Chr. Hansen) at a dose of 1010 colony-forming units/d each.

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They noted that those women who had taken probiotics had a reduced frequency of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): 13 percent for the diet/probiotics group, compared to 36 percent for the diet/placebo group and 34 percent for the control group.