Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011 and Reduced Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth

• A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial on probiotics in small bowel bacterial overgrowth in children treated with omeprazole.

  • 2013-07
  • RCT · n = 70
  • Jornal de pediatria 89(4)
  • • Badriul Hegar
    • Esther I Hutapea
    • Najid Advani
    • Yvan Vandenplas

  • PubMed: 23796359
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2012.12.005

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth

  • High evidence
  • Children

  There was no difference in the incidence of positive breath tests in the probiotic versus the placebo group (33% vs 26.5%; p=0.13).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  1.9×10^9 cfu/day