A recent study, led by Dr. Erika Isolauri, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Turku and chief physician at the Department of Paediatrics at Turku University Hospital in Finland, has found that perinatal probiotic administration is safe and may have the long-term effect of decreasing allergy prevalence.
Of mice and flies: How scientists are discovering growth-promoting probiotics that could benefit malnourished children
27 Jan 2017by Kristina Campbell
Scientists show new evidence that gut microbiota is a key factor in determining growth in malnourished children, with certain strains of probiotic bacteria appearing to have an ‘outsized’ effect on growth.
Role of gut microbiota diversity in protection from asthma and allergy development
23 Dec 2016by Andreu Prados
A recent study led by Dr. Alex Mira (FISABIO, Spain) and Dr. Maria C. Jenmalm (Linköping University, Sweden) and researchers at IATA-CSIC (Spain) has presented an analysis of a total of 192 faecal samples from 28 healthy children and 20 children developing allergic symptoms at age seven, from when the children were 1 and 12 months of age. It has found that children who develop asthma or allergies later in life have altered immune responses to intestinal bacteria in the gut mucosal environment at an early age.
