Re: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS?

[Lisa Schuring]

Probiotics  especially bifidobacterium and lactobacillus will help colonise the gut and vaginal tract with beneficial bacteria. Those beneficial bacteria keep other possible pathogenic bacteria in control. Garlic is a prebiotic and will provide food for the beneficial bacteria, while making the environment for those pathogenic bacteria very unfriendly.   Also used with great success in urinary tract infections, other infections, bacterial and viral, is grapefruit seed extract (GSE).   Btw a vaginally born and exclusively breastfed baby is bifidobacterium dominant which plays a part in protecting them from infection. If there is concern of gbs, it is safe to mix some bifidobacterium only powder with breastmilk or put a little in the babys mouth.     -Lisa