Beyond. Health and Wellness Magazine August 2016 | Page 14

• Probiotic bacteria reduce the duration and severity of common cold episodes. • Probiotic therapy has therapeutic value in treating Klebsiella infection in children. • Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus reuteri reduce the duration of diarrhea in children with mild gastroenteritis. • “Prophylactic probiotics for preterm infants reduces mortality.” • Saccharomyces boulardii is an effective adjuvant in treating acute childhood diarrhea. • Lactobacillus reuteri significantly shortens the duration of watery diarrhea associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis in children between 6 and 36 months. • Acne may respond favorably to probiotics due to their involvement in normalizing the gut-brain-skin axis. • Probiotics prevent IgE-associated allergy until age 5 years in cesarean-delivered children. • Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium lactis are safe and effective in reducing early otitis media and antibiotic use and the risk of respiratory infections during the first year of life. • Postnatal probiotic and prebiotic treatment is safe and increases resistance to respiratory infections during the first 2 years of life. • Probiotics demonstrate immunomodulatory effects in atopic pediatric patients by increasing the TH1 immune response which counterbalances the dominant TH2 immune response. • Saccharomyces boulardii inhibits Escherichia coli infection in children. • Probiotic strains from breast milk are superior to antibiotics in the treatment of infectious mastitis. • Human breast milk contains Lactobacillius strains which are effective in the treatment of mastitis during lactation. • Probiotics prophylaxis was as effective as antibiotic prophylaxis in children with persistent primary vesicoureteral reflux. • Lactobacillus reuteri accelerates gastric emptying and improves regurgitation in infants. • The consumption of fermented milk with Lactobacillus casei in lactating mothers has a positive effect on the mother and offspring’s immunological status. 14 Create healthy habits, not restrictions.