Lactobacillus reuteri UALre-16 and Increased Cure Rate of Diarrhea by Day 3

• Meta-analysis: Lactobacillus reuteri strain DSM 17938 (and the original strain ATCC 55730) for treating acute gastroenteritis in children.

  • 2014-09-01
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Beneficial Microbes 5(3)
  • • H. Szajewska
    • Magdalena Urbańska
    • A. Chmielewska
    • Zvi Weizman
    • R. Shamir

  • PubMed: 24463209
  • DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0056

  6 Insights on

  • Increased Cure Rate of Diarrhea by Day 3

  • High evidence

  DSM 17938 significantly... increased the chance of cure on day 3 (relative risk: 3.5, 95% CI: 1.2 to 10.8, random effects model)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes