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It is possible to get probiotics in foods like yogurt and we do know they are healthy for a variety of bowel and bladder health. For vaginal health we know that the lactobacillus is our bacteria that keeps other bacteria in check. And there are many types of lactobacillus so it's important to keep track of these studies to see what will be shown in the future as potential for health benefits. Antibiotic prescriptions are thought to be the ultimate cause for many conditions. kA week of cipro can throw off the normal gut flora for a month. And in the US and England children have 10-20 courses of antibiotics before their 18th birth day according to some research. So getting the right bacteria may be very important for prevention of diarrhea, allergies, and dental disease among other conditions. But it might just be the thinking "girls" treatment as well as prevention! Many studies have looked at bladder infection protection by taking the right probiotics, and the most re...

Women who report many bladder infections may be suffering from other conditions, but most likely are having chronic bladder infections and not another condition. Bladder infections aren't usually a hard diagnosis to make based on symptoms alone. Lower pain, especially above the bladder, pain with trying to pee, and having to pee all the time. If you see blood it's even a more obvious diagnosis. So most women will know if they ave had a an issue of recurrent bladder infections. Bladder infections called Urinary Tract Infections or UTIs are quite common. In fact 1/10 women have one physician diagnosed infection per year. The area of the vaginal, the urethra, the vulva, has bacteria, and if we run around culturing the pee of women without symptoms many will have growth of some sort of bugs, and usually those cultures will be positive for of the microorganism E. coli. It's a bowel bacteria that can glom on to the wall of the bladder. And some women have E. coli with the abil...