Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Increased Vaginal Lactobacilli Levels

• 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

  • Increased Vaginal Lactobacilli Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Among women with an intermediate vaginal flora, probiotics tended to increase the probability of a normal vaginal flora (odds ratio 2.4; P=0.1)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

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