maltodextrin and Chronic-Disease

Prostatitis is a recurrent urinary infection in males and is often difficult to cure. The aim of the study was to examine whether anti-inflammatory effects of enhanced drainage of prostatic secretions, obtained through two months treatment with a proteolytic enzyme mucoactive (PEM) compound (Serrazyme and other constituents), influenced qualitative or quantitative expressions of bacterial growth in seminal cultures.. 450 patients with prostatitis syndromes were randomized either to PEM therapy (intervention group) or to no treatment group. All patients were followed at the end of a 2-month PEM continuous treatment period (T2) and further two months after withdrawal (T4).. After treatment, 15 out of 107 (14.1%) patients with Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis (CBP) showed negative seminal cultures, while in patients with cat NIH-IIIA prostatitis seminal cultures became positive in 33.3% cases with low bacteriospermia. After two months from withdrawal, although among CBP patients the total number of isolates and colony forming units (CFU) counts showed not significant changes compared to matched-values observed at T2, microbial parameters varied significantly among inflammatory prostatitis patients.. The results of the present study showed that 2 months of treatment with PEM, decreasing bacterial adherence and inflammatory prostatitis, reveals a subgroup of apparent inflammation associated with infection that microbial biofilms likely mask in inflammatory prostatitis patients.

Topics: Adult; Bacteria; Bacterial Adhesion; Bacterial Infections; Biofilms; Boswellia; Chronic Disease; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Inflammation; Male; Pinus; Polysaccharides; Prostatitis; Semen; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult

The protracted diarrhea of young infants with failure to thrive is a clinically defined severe illness. Starting from acute enteritis it will lead to a vicious circle of malnutrition, malabsorption and food intolerance. 17 infants have been treated with a special diet of the three components: 1. oligopeptides (lact-albumin enzymatic hydrolysate); 2. long-chain triglycerides; and 3. Maltodextrin 5 (corn hydrolysate). These components are mixed according to the individual clinical state and intestinal tolerance. Trace elements, minerals and vitamins are added. Our diet has proven a great help in reducing and even replacing parenteral nutrition.

Topics: Chronic Disease; Diarrhea, Infantile; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Oligopeptides; Polysaccharides; Triglycerides