Preventive use of probiotics results in less need of antibiotics?
NewsOctober 9, 2018
A systematic review published in European Journal of Public Health concludes that healthy children who consumed probiotics were 29% less likely to need antibiotics as compared to those who got placebo. The probiotics used were different strains of the genus Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium.
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