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.
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