Improve Your Digestion: How to make your gut work for you and not against you by Patrick Holford

Author:Patrick Holford [Holford, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780349413990
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2017-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

UFOs of the Intestines – Resolving Gut Infections

If you are experiencing diarrhoea and abdominal pain, your body might have been invaded by a UFO – an unfriendly faecal organism. As strange as it might sound, the presence of undesirable organisms (be they bacteria, viruses or parasites) in the digestive tract is surprisingly common. In underdeveloped countries up to 99 per cent of people have been found to house parasites, according to some surveys.55 Diarrhoea-related diseases are some of the greatest worldwide causes of mortality. Although rarely life-threatening in affluent nations, such intestinal infections are probably present in one out of four people.

A recent UK survey estimates that nine million people a year experience some kind of stomach bug, and only one in every 136 infections is reported;56 however, many more people suffer insidious digestive symptoms that are rarely investigated. The frequency of worldwide travel is certainly one factor that has exposed more people to undesirable organisms. Many common parasites can also be encountered in water and improperly prepared food, or through poor hygiene practices and exposure to pets.

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