Streptococcus thermophilus PXN 66 and Reduced Hard Stool Incidence

• Probiotics and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Pediatric Age: A Narrative Review.

  • 2022-02-16
  • Review
  • Frontiers in pediatrics 10
  • • Manuela Capozza
    • Nicola Laforgia
    • Valentina Rizzo
    • Silvia Salvatore
    • Stefano Guandalini
    • Mariella Baldassarre

  • PubMed: 35252059
  • DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.805466

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Hard Stool Incidence

  • Low evidence

  Whilst some strains appear to reduce the number of hard stools in constipated children, the evidence is not adequate to support the use of probiotics in the management of functional constipation.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small