Study finds that daily dose of probiotic helps improve infantile colic symptoms: NewsTarget.com

There is no scientifically defined cause for infantile colic -- a behavioral syndrome in which an otherwise healthy baby cries frequently and inconsolably for an extended period for no discernable reason -- but a new study published in the January issue of Pediatrics found that a daily dose of a certain probiotic helped improve colic symptoms.

Researchers from the University of Turin randomly gave 83 infants either a daily dose of probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri 30 minutes after feeding, or simethicone, a pharmaceutical control. After 7 days, the scientists reported that the average crying times of the probiotic infants were down 21 percent, from 197 minutes a day to 159 minutes a day, according to the mothers, while the crying times of the control group were only reduced by 10 percent; from 197 minutes per day to 177. After 28 days, the crying times had dropped 75 percent (51 minutes per day) for the probiotic group and 26 percent (145 minutes per day) for the control group.

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