Probiotics in Disease Prevention and Treatment

• Published in: Journal of clinical pharmacology Vol. 58 Suppl 10; p. S164
• Main Authors: Liu, Yuying, Tran, Dat Q, Rhoads, J Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Animals; Colic - therapy; Diarrhea - therapy; Enterocolitis, Necrotizing - therapy; Humans; Hypersensitivity - therapy; Irritable Bowel Syndrome - therapy; Primary Prevention; Probiotics - therapeutic use; Respiratory Tract Infections - therapy; regulatory T cells; lactobacillus; allergy; diarrhea; immunology; microbiome

Few treatments for human diseases have received as much investigation in the past 20 years as probiotics. In 2017, English-language meta-analyses totaling 52 studies determined the effect of probiotics on conditions ranging from necrotizing enterocolitis and colic in infants to constipation, irritab...