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 or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

• Decrease the risk of allergy in infants and young children