What can iodophilic flora in feces in a child mean? What disease indicates? Do I need to use medications for treatment? You can try to figure it out.
What is this flora?
Iodophilic flora in feces appears with a decrease in the number of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria and their replacement with a variety of pathogenic or conditionally pathogenic microorganisms:
- yeast cells;
- cocci;
- chopsticks;
- fusiform bacilli;
- bacteria clostridia.
Clostridia can be introduced into normal cells of the medium or located in the intercellular space. In a “healthy” analysis of feces, such inclusions should not be.
Is it mandatory to destroy iodophilic flora?
The iodophilic flora in the feces of a child does not necessarily indicate any serious illness. To suggest its presence in the intestine despite the fact that the baby has a normal temperature, he eats well, is cheerful, sleeps peacefully, it is almost impossible. Without passing tests, it is impossible to guess about problems with the intestinal flora.
Single diarrhea or excessive gas formation may be due to excess fiber in the diet. If there is no reason to worry, but an analysis of feces has been submitted, in which the iodophilic flora is found, then we can assume that this is the norm for this baby.
But you need to remember that the flora is conditionally pathogenic, and in favorable conditions (in violation of the food regime, for example), it can manifest itself.
When is opportunistic flora present in the intestines?
Iodophilic flora in the feces of a child can be detected if the diet has changed, and the baby begins to receive more carbohydrates. In this case, the movement of food through the intestines slows down, and fermentation processes can occur. Excess fruit in the diet in some cases causes putrefactive dyspepsia.
No treatment is required when introducing new products. Gradually, the necessary bacteria will colonize the intestines, and pathogenic microorganisms will recede.
Children who are naturally weakened, have low immunity, or have been under the influence of chemotherapy, themselves can not cope with the disease. They are prescribed probiotics.
Iodophilic flora in the feces of a child may be present if it:
- digestion in the stomach itself or in the upper digestive tract is disturbed;
- accelerated movement of food through the intestines;
- insufficiently absorbed nutrients in the small intestine;
- in the presence of a pathology of the pancreas.
The concentration of such inclusions can be found within the appendix in its iliac part.
Identification of iodophilic flora
Visually examining the feces of the child, it is impossible to identify opportunistic flora. Iodophilic flora is found in the coprogram, a special analysis of feces.
In order to get a reliable result of the analysis, which the doctor will confidently rely on when establishing a diagnosis, the stool should be fresh. In yesterday's feces, iodophilic flora cannot be detected due to the starch's property hydrolyzed.
By the way, the flora got its name - iodophilic - precisely because of the reaction to iodine. When a laboratory sample is stained with iodine, clostridia is partially stained, cocci, pathogenic bacteria and yeast become dark blue and black.
What is a coprogram, and how is it leased?
Since the iodophilic flora is determined by the coprogram, you should dwell on this analysis in more detail.
This is an objective study by which you can talk about the work of the digestive system. The stool of a child is examined visually and by chemical composition, the presence of bacteria and microorganisms is determined in it.
During the coprogram, feces are described visually for density, structural homogeneity and color, examined under a microscope, and are treated with special substances.
Microscopic examination tells about the work of the digestive system and the secretion of bile. It is informative for the detection of dysbiosis and cancer. Only a coprogram can detect occult blood in the stool. Fermentative or putrefactive dyspepsia, which is caused by iodophilic flora, is also detected using this study.
Iodophilic flora should be fought. The presence of pathogenic microorganisms in the children's intestines can lead to the development of chronic colitis and disruption of the gastrointestinal tract as a whole.