Recomendaciones para el empleo de probióticos en la diarrea en la infancia
- Guillermo Álvarez Calatayud
- J. Pérez Moreno
- María del Mar Tolín Hernani
- César Sánchez Sánchez
ISSN: 0001-6640
Any de publicació: 2017
Volum: 75
Número: 5-6
Pàgines: 56-60
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Acta pediátrica española
Resum
Pediatrics is one of the medical specialties where randomized clinical trials with probiotics have demonstrated its efficacy and safety in various pathologies, especially digestive being their use in different types of diarrhea, where more evidence there is for what are included in different clinical practice guidelines. The effect of probiotic should be assessed according to the used strain, dose, administration time and the duration of the same. Probiotics are effective in the treatment of acute infectious diarrhea in children by shortening the average duration of the process, the number of liquid stools, and the percentage that lasts more than 4 days. In the same way, have been widely studied for preventing the development of antibiotic-associated diarrhea being those that have higher level of evidence the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii and strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG.