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E. Coli Articles:

How Cranberry Defeats Bacterial Infections

Infectious E. coli is the primary cause of troubling urinary tract infections. Cranberry is widely used as a natural remedy. The latest science shows that cranberry drastically reduces the ability of E. coli to stick to the walls of the urinary tract, enabling the force of urine flow to flush the bacteria out of your body.

Read More:  Cranberry, E. coli, urinary tract infection

How Stress Can Turn Germs Hostile

It has long been known that stress has a direct immuno-suppressive effect. New research is demonstrating another angle on this issue; stress can turn on gene switches in bacteria that turns them from harmless to hostile.

Read More:  adrenaline, Digestive Helper, E. coli, GI Soother, infection, Quercetin

Glutamine Maintains Gut Barrier Integrity Following E. Coli Exposure

Glutamine continues to shine as a stellar nutrient for GI tract health, both in terms of assisting GI tract immunity and helping the health of the GI tract lining. The latest animal study shows that when pigs are supplemented with glutamine and exposed to several different strains of infectious E.coli , the GI tract is highly protected against the infectious attack. Americans should be aware of this fact, and Germans should be acting on it in the face of their nasty outbreak.

Read More:  E. coli, glutamine, gut barrier, inflammation

The Highly Pathogenic E. Coli Genie is Out of the Bottle – Can You Withstand an Attack?

The tactics are straight out of the terrorist textbook. A wave of suicide bombers hits the front line defensive fortifications. Most of this first wave blows holes in the defensive barriers and leaves a battlefield of inflammatory damage and debris. Some of these first wave terrorists hijack important communication systems relating to the natural defense mechanisms. If these defense mechanisms fail invasion of the body is certain. Rather than that, the defense mechanisms, faced with impending doom, are forced to allow an inflammatory diarrhea response. But wait, the second wave of the terrorist attack is now under way. They are taking advantage of the damaged battlefield of the first wave of attack. They are armed with highly toxic chemical weapons, the type that is banned from “humane warfare.” Welcome to the world of infectious E. coli. And in Germany, welcome to the world of superbug infectious E. coli – resistant to antibiotics and armed with some of the most devastating toxins ever known.

Read More:  E. coli, Germany, gut barrier, inflammation, O104:H4, O157:H7, toxins

E. Coli Learns Resistance from Small Doses of Antibiotics

The contamination of the water supply and food supply with small amounts of antibiotics is continually ignored by health authorities as not important. A new study changes that fundamental safety assumption. It shows that E. coli rapidly gain resistance to antibiotics when exposed to low doses that are not adequate to kill them. This study indicates that currently used practices for raising food animals and treating humans are at the root of breeding superstrains of E. coli, as recently highlighted in the German outbreak.

Read More:  antibiotic resistance, E. coli, E. coli outbreak, superstrain