Milk products containing active bacteria, such as Lactobacillus, Acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum and so on are probiotics. These microbes maintain the balance of intestinal microorganisms. That is, with the increase in the population of microbes helping the digestion, there is also a decrease in the population of harmful microbes (ex. Clostridium). Probiotic products are available as yoghurt, kefir, sauerkraut (pickle of cabbage), dark chocolate, miso soup, pickles, oils, corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, microalgae (Seafood like Spirulina, Chlorella, Blue green algae, etc.). These products produce the colonies of useful microbes in the alimentary canal and control other microbes and their metabolic activities, thus improving resistance and lowering the ill-effects of harmful substances that are generated during metabolic activities. Useful microbes that have become inactive due to antibiotics are made active again with the help of probiotics. Nowadays, probiotics are used for treatment of diarrhoea and treatment of poultry also.
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