Ask the Pediatrician: Can probiotics help children with stomach issues after taking antibiotics?
Q: My daughter had to take antibiotics and they seem to have given her some tummy issues. Can probiotics help restore gut balance?
Feb 21, 2022
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Q: My daughter had to take antibiotics and they seem to have given her some tummy issues. Can probiotics help restore gut balance?
Feb 21, 2022
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You've probably heard of probiotics—the "good bacteria" that can benefit our health. We consume them in an expanding variety of ways, often in foods marketed as being healthy. These bacteria can be contained in supplement ...
Jan 31, 2022
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Antibiotics treat infections caused by bacteria. But they can also destroy the good bacteria in your gut. For some people, this results in an upset stomach and diarrhea.
Jul 19, 2021
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In the human gut, good bacteria make great neighbors.
May 26, 2021
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Our body's relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our gut is also teaming with "good" bacteria that aids nutrition and helps keep us healthy. But even the "good" can have bad effects ...
May 12, 2021
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A new study has linked sterilising pacifiers (or dummies) with an increased risk of food allergies in babies at age one.
May 4, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Millions of Americans have at some point in their lives gotten a long course of antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection. But according to new recommendations from a major U.S. doctors' group, some of the ...
Apr 6, 2021
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The increasingly trendy trio of kefir, kimchi and kombucha may not be familiar to you, but experts say fermented foods like these can help the home of most of your immune system—your gut.
Mar 24, 2021
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Your oral health is more important than you might realize. Like other areas of the body, your mouth teems with bacteria—and those bacteria are mostly harmless. But your mouth is the entry point to your digestive and respiratory ...
Feb 12, 2021
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Drug-resistant bacteria could lead to more deaths than cancer by 2050, according to a report commissioned by the United Kingdom in 2014 and jointly supported by the U.K. government and the Wellcome Trust. In an effort to ...
Jan 6, 2021
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