Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women - May 2019

Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women Press Release MedicalXpress

  • "In the MUSC trial of 387 healthy pregnant women of diverse ethnicity, black women with lower levels of vitamin D during pregnancy had more Megasphaera - a type of bacteria linked to bacterial vaginosis, which is a common dysbiosis or disorder in the vaginal canal. In contrast, white women with higher levels of vitamin D had more lactobacilli, a type of bacteria that promotes vaginal health"

Reporting on Relationship between vitamin D status and the vaginal microbiome during pregnancy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-019-0343-8
4400 IU Vitamin D Randomized Controlled Trial
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Vitamin D has been found to change both human genes and bionomes


Probably there would be massive changes in vaginal bionome following antibiotics

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