Lactobacillus reuteri and Reduced Crying Time

• Effectiveness of probiotics in infantile colic: A rapid review.

  • 2019-04-03
  • Review
  • Paediatrics & child health 25(3)
  • • Mohammad Karkhaneh
    • Lexa Fraser
    • Hsing Jou
    • Sunita Vohra

  • PubMed: 32296276
  • DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxz007

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Crying Time

  • Low evidence
  • Infants

  The probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri was used in the majority (five of eight) of treatment trials, and was found to significantly reduce crying in colicky breast-fed infants compared to placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes