Saccharomyces boulardii and Reduced Length of Hospital Stay

• Unique Properties of Yeast Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745: A Narrative Review.

  • 2023-10-01
  • Review
  • Cureus 15(10)
  • • Sarath Gopalan
    • Sridhar Ganapathy
    • Monjori Mitra
    • Neha
    • Devesh Kumar Joshi
    • Krishna C Veligandla
    • Rahul Rathod
    • Bhavesh P Kotak

  • PubMed: 37927652
  • DOI: 10.7759/cureus.46314

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Length of Hospital Stay

  • Low evidence

  Among Indian children with PAGE, S. boulardii CNCM I-745 was found superior to Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and four strains of Bacillus clausii in shortening the duration of diarrhea and reducing the length of hospital stay.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes