Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Reduced Cold/Flu Medication Use

• Efficacy of a yeast postbiotic on cold/flu symptoms in healthy children: A randomized-controlled trial.

  • 2024-06-28
  • RCT
  • Pediatric research 96(7)
  • • Ruma G Singh
    • Vicenta Garcia-Campayo
    • Justin B Green
    • Neil Paton
    • Julissa D Saunders
    • Huda Al-Wahsh
    • David C Crowley
    • Erin D Lewis
    • Malkanthi Evans
    • Marc Moulin

  • PubMed: 38942887
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03331-z

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Cold/Flu Medication Use

  • High evidence

  Participants taking Placebo were 1.73 times more likely to use cold/flu medication compared to those receiving EpiCor (P = 0.04).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes