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Gender medicine: the impact of probiotics on male patients.

Dipartimento di Scienze Odontostomatologiche e Maxillo Facciali, Sapienza University of Rome. Ionian Department, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari. Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari. Medical Faculty University of Tetova, Macedonia. School of Technical Medical Sciences, "A. Xhuvani" University, Elbasan, Albania. Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari - Sorriso & Benessere Ricerca e Clinica S.r.l., Bari. Sorriso & Benessere Ricerca e Clinica S.r.l., Bari. Ionian Department, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari - Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari. Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari. Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Campus Universitario "Ernesto Quagliariello", University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari - Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.

La Clinica terapeutica. 2021;(1):e8-e15
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PURPOSE Numerous studies in the literature confirm the importance of the use of probiotics in inflammatory states of the prostate in humans. Our pilot study aimed to test probiotics strains ability to improve urinary bacterial load in male subjects. METHODS Twenty healthy men aged 55-65 years, with recurrent urinatory infections were enrolled and randomized into 2 groups. Urine culturing to detect Enterobacteriaceae (Escherichia Coli and Enterococcus faecalis) was performed at baseline and at 12 weeks after the starting of the study. RESULTS We found that taking the probiotic reduces the bacterial load of E. coli and E. faecalis in urine cultures. The use of the probiotic in these inflammatory states does not affect the change in weight in the tested subjects. CONCLUSIONS Our data confirm and improve the main results reported in the scientific literature on the importance of taking probiotics in prostatitis.

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Publication Type : Randomized Controlled Trial

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