Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Baby's first bacteria depends on delivery
As time passes from the day that you were born, have you ever wondered what microbes you could've picked up when you were born C-section? As new survey reveals a new discovery, Babies that were born by C-section has different bacteria on their skins, nose, mouth and rectum than babies being born vaginally. This research also adds evidence to those babies born by C-section that are missing out on beneficial bacteria passed on their mothers. This beneficial bacterias that are being passed on from the mothers are quite important. Babies without those bacterias may not be able to strengthen their immune system not just that but the other systems as well.
As previous research suggests, that babies born via C-section may be more vulnerable to developing allergies, asthma and other immune system-related problems than babies born in traditional way. With this evidence, babies may develop even more than allergies and such. Deadly problems related to their health could develop in that way.
I never knew that there would be a difference of getting microbes from being born in C-section or the traditional way. It quite saddens me for these babies that didn't received those good bacteria that were being passed on by their mothers. Those bacteria could have been a great help for their immune system and other systems as well. They would've live in a simple way of life as they grow up, not being afraid of what they are allergic to, and other things. I wish that they would've been an another way aside from C-sction so those babies could receive those beneficial bacteria and within that process as well, there would be no problems of bringing danger to their mothers.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Microbes within the seafloor
Have you ever wondered if there are microbes living within sea floor? Well, researchers have found evidence that they are microbes living within the sea floors with a remarkable low metabolic rates. These microbes takes a little amount of oxygen that they barely qualify or made it to the category of being alive. As researchers have said, they may have lived for 86 million years with minimum energy requirement needed to stay alive.
Although these microbes have not been identified or yet unknown, it is quite intriguing to find these microbes within the sea floor. Knowing that these microbes are unknown, it could have the potential of being dangerous or the other way around. It may not affect us since we quite have a large distance between us humans and microbes on the seafloor. This new information do helps us know that they are microbes within the seafloor. As far as we know about microbes, they have existed within the air, the ground,most of the body parts of the human body, in general mostly everywhere.
Also, with in these areas, light doesn't penetrate that much to the sea floors in which cases, these microbes have live mostly without light. In these kind of environment, they may have changed their ways of living unlike any other microbes. They may have changed into having different characteristics or appearances within those area as well.
As questions comes in mind, should we treat these microbes as friends or foes? What if these microbes made contact within us, could they be dangerous or not? Could they evolve upon contact with a new environment where there is more oxygen and could have the potential of being deadly? Lot of questions needed to be answered, but as of now, no one knows.
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