Lactobacillus paracasei VPro 224 and Improved Resistance to Common Cold

• Effects of paraprobiotic Lactobacillus paracasei MCC1849 supplementation on symptoms of the common cold and mood states in healthy adults.

  • 2018-12-07
  • RCT · n = 241
  • Beneficial Microbes 9(6)
  • • M. Murata
    • J. Kondo
    • N. Iwabuchi
    • S. Takahashi
    • K. Yamauchi
    • F. Abe
    • K. Miura

  • PubMed: 30099891
  • DOI: 10.3920/BM2017.0197

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  • Improved Resistance to Common Cold

  • High evidence

  In a prespecified subgroup of subjects who had the common cold in the previous year, the incidence, total number of days of symptoms, and symptom scores of the common cold significantly improved in the 10LP-intake group, and were slightly lower in the 30LP-intake group than in the placebo group.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes