Giardia lambliapan

[badfish51581]

I have a cousin who just adopted two kids from Russia and is pretty sure she has a parasite - Giardia lambliapan. The doctors think so as well too, but haven't confirmed this yet.

I did however find this study...

Effect of as a probiotic on modulation of giardiasis.
Shukla G, Devi P, Sehgal R.

Department of Microbiology, Basic Medical Block, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India. [email protected]

The present study was designed with the aim to study the modulation of giardiasis with natural intervention, i.e., Lactobacillus casei--a probiotic, in a murine model. Probiotics are viable microorganisms having a beneficial effect on the prevention and treatment of specific pathological conditions. Various dairy products such as curd, lassi, and kulfi were employed particularly to isolate live organisms (probiotics). Out of five isolated strains only one was found to be similar to a standard strain--Lactobacillus delbrueckii. Experimentally, it was observed that oral feeding of isolated strain A, 7 days prior to inoculation with Giardia lamblia trophozoites, was not as efficient as L. casei in eliminating Giardia infection from BALB/c mice. Interestingly, it was observed that L. casei fed 7 days prior to Giardia infection was more effective and efficient in eliminating the infection from mice. On histological examination, it was observed that probiotic-fed mice had less atrophied villi and infiltrating cells in the small intestine compared to the control. Ultrastructural studies by scanning electron microscopy further confirmed the protection of the mice dosed with L. casei 7 days prior to Giardia infection and also when simultaneously infected with Giardia. It is felt that probiotics, particularly L. casei, modulate Giardia infection by minimizing or preventing the adherence of Giardia trophozoites to the mucosal surface, suggesting that probiotics offer a safe and effective mode to prevent and treat Giardia infection.

Unfortunately they won't give her medication until it is confirmed, which is difficult. She has to submit stool samples until it tests positive, but the parasite doesn't leave traces that often, so it's been going on for sometime.

In the meantime, I want to recommend my cousin take gut health based on the above study and was wondering if there was an upper limit to how many she should take?

I realize as reps you may not want to recommend taking too much from a liability perspective, so even just letting me know the consequences of increasing levels above the daily recommendation would be useful.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[dsade]

you are correct about liability, so we have to recommend seeing her doctor - however there is no upper limit to Gut Health dosage. Giardia is one nasty bug, and can cause mass problems that last a LONG time.

Gut Health's strain, KE-99, is one of the most potent substrains of L. Caseii ever studies - especially for the purpose of dislodging and protecting against pathogenic species.

 

[badfish51581]

Thanks Dsade! I'd love to see the studies if you have them available.