Probiotics May Help People Taking Antibiotics

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Probiotics May Help People Taking Antibiotics

Up to one in five people on antibiotics stop taking their full course

of antibiotic therapy due to diarrhea.

Physicians could help patients avoid this problem by prescribing

probiotics,

according to a study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of

Medicine of Yeshiva University published in American Family Physician.

The Einstein scientists reviewed the medical literature and found

seven, high-quality studies in which probiotics were administered to

people.

The researchers concluded that the studies support the use of

probiotics for avoiding diarrhea resulting from antibiotic use or

from gastrointestinal viral or bacterial infections.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217190443.htm

Alana