date:May 11, 2012
Published in theJournal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) the new meta-analysis reveals that consumption of friendly bacteria in the form of probiotics in foods such as yogurt is associated with a reduced risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea a common adverse effect of antibiotic use.
The use of antibiotics that disturb the gastrointestinal flora [microbes] is associated with clinical symptoms such as diarrhoea, which occurs in as many as 30 percent of patients,explained the researc