Streptococcus thermophilus and Reduced Diarrhea Incidence

• Feeding of Bifidobacterium bifidum and Streptococcus thermophilus to infants in hospital for prevention of diarrhoea and shedding of rotavirus

  • 1994-10
  • RCT · n = 55
  • The Lancet 344(8929)
  • • J. Saavedra
    • N.A Bauman
    • J. Perman
    • R. Yolken
    • I. Oung

  • PubMed: 7934445
  • DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(94)91708-6

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Diarrhea Incidence

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  8 (31%) of the 26 patients who received the control formula and 2 (7%) of 29 who received the supplemented formula developed diarrhoea during the course of the study (p = 0.035, Fisher's exact test, two-tailed).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes