LGG significantly reduces the frequency and severity of abdominal pain in children with IBS; this effect is sustained and may be secondary to improvement of the gut barrier.

Background: Several studies report an inhibitory effect of probiotics on Helicobacter pylori . Aim: To test whether Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 55730 reduces H. pylori intragastric load in vivo, decreases dyspeptic symptoms, and affects eradication rates after conventional treatment. Materials and Methods: In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, 40 H. pylori -positive subjects were given L. reuteri once a day for 4 weeks or placebo. All underwent upper endoscopy,

Addition of MII to conventional pH monitoring significantly increases the diagnostic yield in detecting REs, prevalently in infants, and in revealing an association between refluxes and symptoms, prevalently respiratory ones and in infants group.

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