probiotics to prevent diarrhea caused by antibiotics

January 2000

There's renewed interest in using probiotics to prevent diarrhea caused by antibiotics...due to several favorable new reports in medical journals.

Probiotics are live microorganisms...usually strains of Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, and other normal GI flora.

People take probiotics as supplements (Lactinex, etc)...or get them from yogurt and other fermented dairy products.

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