To add or not to add probiotics to infant formulae? An updated systematic review

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 717-725

  Skorka A ^a   Piescik Lech, M ^a   Kolodziej, M ^a   Szajewska, H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children; Feeding; Microbiota; Nutrition; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CHILD GROWTH; COLIC; CRYING; DEFECATION HABIT; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES COMPOSITION; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; META ANALYSIS; NIGHT SLEEP; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; LACTOBACILLUS; PROBIOTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85031420180     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2016.0233     Document Type: Review

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