Preventing pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea andClostridium difficileinfections with probiotics: A meta-analysis
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Probiotics for pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea: a meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials.
BACKGROUND Antibiotic treatment is known to disturb gastrointestinal microflora, which results in a range of clinical symptoms--most notably, diarrhea. This is especially important in children, for whom antibiotics are prescribed frequently. Although meta-analyses have been conducted to evaluate the ability of probiotics to prevent antibiotic-induced diarrhea in the general population, little i...
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate efficacy of probiotics in prevention and treatment of diarrhoea associated with the use of antibiotics. DESIGN Meta-analysis; outcome data (proportion of patients not getting diarrhoea) were analysed, pooled, and compared to determine odds ratios in treated and control groups. IDENTIFICATION Studies identified by searching Medline between 1966 and 2000 and the Cochrane...
متن کاملReview: probiotics are effective in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
Main results 9 trials (1214 patients) met the selection criteria. 2 of the trials studied children. No statistical heterogeneity or publication bias was detected among the 9 trials. The pooled odds ratio (OR) showed that probiotic treatment was more effective than placebo in the prevention of diarrhoea (OR 0.37, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.53) (table). 4 trials that used S. boulardii (yeast trials) also f...
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Goldenberg JZ, Lytvyn L, Steurich J, Parkin P, Mahant S, Johnston BC. Probiotics for the prevention of pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea.Cochrane Database Syst Rev2015, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD004827. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004827.pub4. BACKGROUND Antibiotics are frequently prescribed in children. They alter the microbial balance within the gastrointestinal tract, commonly ...
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1 Probiotics for the prevention of pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea (Review) Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Meta-Analysis
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2308-3840
DOI: 10.13105/wjma.v1.i3.102