Saccharomyces boulardii and Increased Body Weight Gain

• A double-blinded randomized trial on growth and feeding tolerance with Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745 in formula-fed preterm infants.

  • 2016-05
  • RCT · n = 125
  • Jornal de Pediatria 92(3)
  • • Ling-fen Xu
    • Yun Wang
    • Yang Wang
    • Jianhua Fu
    • Mei Sun
    • Zhi-qin Mao
    • Y. Vandenplas

  • PubMed: 26946967
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2015.08.013

  5 Insights on

  • Increased Body Weight Gain

  • High evidence

  Weight gain (16.14±1.96 vs. 10.73±1.77g/kg/day, p<0.05) … significantly higher in the intervention group.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  50mg/kg twice daily