04/08/2002
By Elda Hauschildt
Lactobacillus therapy appears to be safe and effective in reducing the duration and frequency of infectious diarrhoea in children by as much as two-thirds of a day.
"We also found that Lactobacillus therapy benefited not only cases with documented rotavirus diarrhoea, but also cases of infectious diarrhoea caused by a variety of pathogens, as would be found in ambulatory clinical settings," United States investigators say. Lactobacillus is found in normal human intestinal and perineal flora and its anti-diarrhoeal use in children has been researched since the 1960s.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the Sea Mar Community Health centre in Seattle explain that diarrhoea contributes substantially to paediatric morbidity and mortality worldwide: "In the US, an estimated 21 million to 37 million episodes of diarrhoea occur among 16.5 million children younger than five years of age annually."
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