Abstract

Dr Shafai considers our study on probiotics and prebiotics (synbiotic) in breastfed infants unethical. The world-wide allergy epidemic forms a great socioeconomic burden for societies and families, and exclusive breastfeeding (alone) has failed to solve the problem. The evidence of breastfeeding in the prevention of allergies is controversial and may depend of heredity.1,2 We performed the randomized, placebo-controlled study on probiotics and prebiotics because these agents had been reported to be promising in the prevention of allergic diseases in …

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