Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118 and Reduced Helicobacter pylori Colonization

• What Roles Do Probiotics Play in the Eradication of Helicobacter pylori? Current Knowledge and Ongoing Research.

  • 2018-10-16
  • Review
  • Gastroenterology research and practice 2018
  • • Han-Yi Song
    • Long Zhou
    • Dong-Yan Liu
    • Xin-Jie Yao
    • Yan Li

  • PubMed: 30410538
  • DOI: 10.1155/2018/9379480

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Helicobacter pylori Colonization

  • Low evidence

  Probiotics are beneficial to human health and may be an adjunct therapy to increase the eradication rate of HP, lower treatment-associated side effects, and reduce HP-associated gastric inflammation. The mechanisms of actions of probiotics include the production of substances that inhibit or kill HP or compete with HP for the adhesion site on gastric epithelial cells.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate