saccharomyces boulardii and Reduced Prolonged Diarrhea

• Saccharomyces boulardii in acute childhood diarrhoea: a randomized, placebo‐controlled study

  • 2007-03-22
  • RCT
  • Acta Paediatrica 96(4)
  • • Gladys Villarruel
    • Daniel Rubio
    • F. Lopez
    • Julio Cintioni
    • Rubén Gurevech
    • G. Romero
    • Y. Vandenplas

  • PubMed: 17306006
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00191.x

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Prolonged Diarrhea

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  The risk of having diarrhoea lasting more than 7 days was lower in the S. boulardii group (3/44 versus 12/44; RR 0.25; 95% CI 0.1-0.8).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  administered for 6 days (dose not specified in abstract)