Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 and Reduced Vaginal pH

• Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and L. reuteri RC-14 to prevent or cure bacterial vaginosis among women with HIV.

  • 2010-11-02
  • RCT
  • International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 111(3)
  • • Ruben Hummelen
    • John Changalucha
    • Nicodemus L Butamanya
    • Adrian Cook
    • J Dik F Habbema
    • Gregor Reid

  • PubMed: 20801446
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2010.07.008

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Vaginal pH

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  significantly increased the probability of a beneficial vaginal pH (odds ratio 3.8; P=0.02) at follow-up

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  daily probiotics for 6 months (exact dose not specified in abstract)