Lactobacillus helveticus VPro 13 and Reduced Duration of Diarrhea

• Effectiveness of Lactobacillus helveticus and Lactobacillus rhamnosus for the management of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in healthy adults: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

  • 2016-05-12
  • RCT · n = 120
  • British Journal of Nutrition 116(1)
  • • M. Evans
    • Ryan P Salewski
    • M. Christman
    • S. Girard
    • T. Tompkins

  • PubMed: 27169634
  • DOI: 10.1017/S0007114516001665

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Duration of Diarrhea

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  A post hoc analysis on the duration of diarrhoea-like defecations showed that probiotic intervention reduced the length of these events by 1 full day (probiotic, 2·70 (sem 0·36) d; placebo, 3·71 (sem 0·36) d; P=0·037; effect size=0·52).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes