Abstract
ABSTRACT Probiotics in acute infectious diarrhea Background: Acute infectious diarrhea in children represents a worldwide problem and it relates todesnutrition, morbility and death. Objective: Determine the usefulness of probiotics in the treatment ofacute infectious diarrhea in children by reviewing the scientific information available in the form of meta-analysis. Methods: A detailed search was performed in electronic databases. Four of the articles found metinclusion criteria. Results: The four meta-analysis studied demonstrated that the administration of probioticsin children with acute infectious diarrhea decreased the episode duration in approximately one day withminimal adverse events. Conclusions: Despite methodological limitations of the analysed articles, thestudies showed the same trend towards observing a benefit in the use of probiotics in acute infectiousdiarrhea in children. The latter supports the consistency of this association. In general, the use ofprobiotics in children with acute infectious diarrhea would be useful in general practice reducing diarrheaduration in approximately one day.(
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