Synbiotics Prevent Asthma-Like Symptoms in Infants With Atopic Dermatitis

Abstract

LB van der Aa, WM van Aalderen, HS Heymans; Synbad Study Group. Allergy. 2011;66(2):170–177 Infants with atopic dermatitis (AD) are at high risk of developing asthma. These researchers sought to examine the effect of early intervention with synbiotics, a combination of probiotics and prebiotics, on the prevalence of asthma-like symptoms in infants with AD. Ninety term infants less than 7 months of age with AD were recruited from 2005 to 2007 in the Netherlands. Inclusion criteria included an AD score (Severity Scoring of Atopic Dermatitis [SCORAD]) of …