Streptococcus thermophilus SEBiotic and Improved Safe Consumption Practices

• Long-term consumption of infant formulas containing live probiotic bacteria: tolerance and safety.

  • 2004-02
  • RCT · n = 118
  • The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 79(2)
  • • J. Saavedra
    • A. Abi-hanna
    • N. Moore
    • R. Yolken

  • PubMed: 14749232
  • DOI: 10.1093/AJCN/79.2.261

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Safe Consumption Practices

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  Long-term consumption of formulas supplemented with B. lactis and S. thermophilus was well tolerated and safe and resulted in adequate growth, reduced reporting of colic or irritability, and a lower frequency of antibiotic use.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes