Probiotic health benefits
The best-proven health benefits of probiotics are:
- Shortening the period of symptoms of gut infection
- Decreasing the risk of having side effects from treatment with antibiotics
Other areas where probiotics are used, and/or being studied in scientific trials are:
- To aid people with lactose intolerance
- To lessen the risk of travellers’ diarrhoea
- To aid people with indigestion problems (=dyspepsia/irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Decrease the risk of allergy in infants and young children