Probiotics given to infants during weaning may help alleviate the symptoms of atopic eczema. This has been demonstrated in a study of 21 infants who already had evidence of atopic eczema and were at heightened risk for chronic allergic disease, report Dr. Pirkka Kirjavainen and colleagues at the Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Finland.
Recent studies have indicated a relationship between the composition of the intestinal microflora and allergic inflammation, and demonstrated the competence of probiotics in down-regulation of such inflammation.
When the infants were weaned onto hydrolysed whey formula feed, eight of them had an adverse reaction. Of the other 13 infants, seven were fed the formula supplemented with probiotic bacteria (Bifidobacterium lactis) and six were fed formula and without any supplementation.
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