Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) share more than a room. Researchers say “microbiome cross-talk” boosted bacterial diversity in the ICU, and everyone benefited. In one small community hospital, probiotics protected against diarrhea not only in the patients for whom they are prescribed, but in fellow patients resting nearby. Probiotics aren’t called “friendly bacteria” for […]
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Microbes Need Care in the ICU
While often life-saving, hospitals can be dangerous to your health. Exposed to infections, lack of sleep and poor nutrition, patients may spiral down into the intensive care unit (ICU) where two critical illnesses are common: sepsis and acute respiratory failure. A role for microbes Microbes are emerging as key players in the genesis, advance and […]