Improving your health with microbial medical treatments

The advances in the knowledge of the microbial population of our organism provide a new perspective in the use of live microbes for treatments, this type of treatment isn't a new thing, some bacterial or live virus strains have been used for vaccination for many years and without being a conventional pharmacological treatment the use of microbial strains as probiotics also has a long tradition.

Our body is home to more than a trillion microbial cells belonging to hundreds of different species that are organized as a true super organism with the most varied useful activities to our body. The balance of this population is essential for our health and the aim is to be able to translate these findings into clinical practice in the form of microbial transplants.

Although this may come as a surprise, faecal transplantation is already used in some cases because the intestinal contents of healthy people contribute to restoring health in some sick people. For example, this type of transplant is used to combat cases of intestinal damage caused by clostridium difficile bacteria, which are highly resistant to antibiotics and whose severity can be life-threatening.

Although these transplants are useful, they aren't exempt from difficulties, being necessary to improve the selection of donors and correcting the important gaps that exist in the regulation and authorization of procedures.