Mode of delivery and gut microbiota

Mode of delivery and gut microbiota

In 1985 the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: “There is no justification for any region to have Caesarean Section (CS) rates higher than 10-15%”[1]. During the last decades the percentage of births managed by CS has increased beyond the recommended level, especially in high income areas such as Italy, Germany, France, United Kingdom, and North America [2,3]. Emerging evidences indicate th...

Mode of delivery - effects on gut microbiota and humoral immunity.

BACKGROUND The rate of caesarean deliveries has increased 10-fold worldwide during the past decades. OBJECTIVE To evaluate differences in the establishment of gut microbiota in infants born by vaginal or caesarean delivery and its impact on mucosal immunity. METHODS Altogether, 165 consecutive children, prospectively followed from birth at our clinic in Turku, Finland, were gathered; 141 (8...

Gut Microbiota and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Delivery Mode and the Transition of Pioneering Gut-Microbiota Structure, Composition and Predicted Metabolic Function

Cesarean (C-section) delivery, recently shown to cause excess weight gain in mice, perturbs human neonatal gut microbiota development due to the lack of natural mother-to-newborn transfer of microbes. Neonates excrete first the in-utero intestinal content (referred to as meconium) hours after birth, followed by intestinal contents reflective of extra-uterine exposure (referred to as transition ...

Psychobiotics and Brain-Gut Microbiota Axis

Fermented foods containing probiotic bacteria have been used for many years to improve the health or treatment of some diseases. Nowadays, the Therapeutic properties of probiotics are becoming more and more obvious to everyone, insofar as in recent years, more attention has been paid to the potential relation between gut microbiota and mental health. Several studies have shown that intestinal m...