A Bit of Culture for Children: Probiotics May Improve Health and Fight Disease

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Here's an article published in JAMA Vol. 284 No. 11, September 20, 2000.

A Bit of Culture for Children: Probiotics May Improve Health and Fight

Disease

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n11/ffull/jmn0920-1.html

It talks about probiotic use for treatment of diarrhea including antibiotic

use induced diarrhea as well as other positive effects of probitotic use in

children including improvement of allergy symptoms and eczema, reducing

respiratory problems, and enhancing various immune system reactions.

The article ends with this:

" Are probiotics safe? Saavedra said that many reports and the fact that for

centuries people have ingested fermented milk products with apparently no

ill effects seem to indicate that these agents are safe. He stressed that

more research needs to be done to standardize and regulate " what benefits

we're getting from what strain and at what dose " for the full clinical

potential of probiotics to be realized. "

So hooray for yogurt and kefir and buttermilk and all those wonderful

cultured milk products NT describes.

ine in SC