Do Probiotics Help Children’s Respiratory Infections?

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Recent clinical trials on the use of probiotics with children found evidence of effectiveness for colic, intestinal infection, atopic dermatitis, and upper respiratory infection. New benefits were identified for adults, as well.

The studies include a look at the benefits of dead vs. live probiotics, which should be of interest to anyone who has ever forgotten to put the bottle back in the fridge.

Evidence continues to mount for the potential of probiotic supplements to address a wide variety of health conditions in people of all ages.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:31.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:39.7	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another
0:45.9	episode of Dr. Rucho Radio. This is Dr. Rucho, and today let's go into another round of updates
0:52.0	on probiotics and what the research is saying.
0:56.0	Briefly, before we jump in on that specifically, a reminder about the levels of scientific evidence,
1:03.0	because as I'm sure you know, but always worth repeating, not all science is equal in its level of rigor and quality.
1:11.6	And what we will go through here are mostly either clinical trials and or summaries of clinical
1:18.6	trials, meta analyses, and or systematic reviews are the two main formats for which
1:26.6	one would see a summary of clinical trials.
1:29.4	And that's important because, as one of the studies that we'll touch on here,
1:33.7	um, illustrates a clinical trial found good evidence for hives, which are histamine-mediated, and benefit from supplementing with probiotics.
1:49.6	Now, you will sometimes hear, people say, well, don't you need a special histamine-free or low-histamine probiotic,
1:57.0	which is based upon mechanism, and mechanism data is part of the scientific process.
2:04.8	It is science, but it is less compelling or less impactful or less important science than would be a clinical trial.
2:12.7	And this is one of the techniques you can use to help parse some of the disparities you may see online where
2:18.8	different thought leaders in the space may have different opinions. And really, the person
2:24.1	who has the best quality of science, their recommendations are most likely to help you.
2:32.4	So just a brief reminder on that. And what we've done here, of course,
2:36.3	in the podcast on probiotic updates, is really filtered to only that highest quality science,
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