Lactobacillus casei SD-5842 and Reduced Viral Respiratory Infection

• A multi-strain Synbiotic may reduce viral respiratory infections in asthmatic children: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2016-09-20
  • RCT · n = 72
  • Electronic physician 8(9)
  • • Hamid Ahanchian
    • Seyed Ali Jafari
    • Elham Ansari
    • Toktam Ganji
    • Mohammad Ali Kiani
    • Maryam Khalesi
    • Tooba Momen
    • Hamidreza Kianifar

  • PubMed: 27790333
  • DOI: 10.19082/2833

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Viral Respiratory Infection

  • High evidence

  The number of viral respiratory infections was significantly higher in placebo group than the synbiotic group during the first month of intervention ... but not during the second month ... Considering the total duration of the study (two months), infection episodes also were significantly lower in the synbiotic group

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes