Abstract
Infants and children attending day-care centres demonstrate a notably higher risk of gastrointestinal as well as of respiratory tract infections. The present short review evaluates various well-controlled clinical trials analysing the effect of probiotics and prebiotics in the prevention of such infections. In most of the 12 studies identified, probiotic supplementation was found to be a safe and effective therapeutic tool in preventing gastrointestinal and respiratory infection in this population.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 181-183 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Beneficial microbes |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2015 |
Keywords
- Children
- Day-care centres
- Infection
- Prebiotics
- Probiotics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine