{"id":6434,"date":"2018-11-21T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:57:43","slug":"probiotics-no-help-to-young-kids-with-stomach-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/probiotics-no-help-to-young-kids-with-stomach-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Probiotics no help to young kids with stomach virus<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1802597\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em><\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1802598\" target=\"_blank\">two papers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published\u00a0November 21, 2018 \u00a017:00 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-11\/wuis-pnh111618.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from Washington University, St. Louis)<br \/>\nChildren with stomach viruses increasingly are given probiotics to ease vomiting and diarrhea symptoms, but these two studies show that two commonly used probiotic formulas do not improve symptoms. Researchers evalutated the effectiveness of Culturelle (<em>Lactobacillus rhamnosus<\/em> GG) and Lacidofil (<em>Lactobacillus rhamnosus <\/em>R0011 and <em>Lactobacillus helveticus<\/em>R0053).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author,<\/strong> Canadian study: Stephen Freedman, University of Calgary &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sfreedma@ucalgary.ca\" target=\"_blank\">sfreedma@ucalgary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Journal of Medicine: two papers Published\u00a0November 21, 2018 \u00a017:00 ET (News release from Washington University, St. Louis) Children with stomach viruses increasingly are given probiotics to ease vomiting and diarrhea symptoms, but these two studies show that two commonly used probiotic formulas do not improve symptoms. Researchers evalutated the effectiveness of Culturelle (Lactobacillus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1FM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}