Use of an antibacterial soap - particularly soap containing compound called triclocarban - during pregnancy and breastfeeding may change the composition of the intestinal microflora in children, warn scientists at the University Tennessee.
The intestinal microflora contains both beneficial and harmful microbes, and the changes in its normal composition associated with various diseases, including obesity, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis and asthma. Many antibacterial personal care products commonly used during pregnancy and lactation breast to protect against infectious diseases, but a new study has shown that this does unsafe. In his new job specialists studied the effects of triclocarban contained in antibacterial soap, in the early life of the intestinal microflora.
Experts were pregnant female rats exposed triclocarban, and then studied their intestinal microflora 16-day-old rat pups. The scientists compared the results with analyzes of the intestinal microflora of rats that were not exposed to triclocarban.
The data show that rats exposed to this compound had a composition of intestinal microflora compared to untreated pups. These differences became apparent already on the 12th day of life, experts say.
