CHOICE OF A PROBIOTIC FOR INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN: IS THERE A PROBLEM?

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9
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2015

M. Bekhtereva (1,2), Candidate of Medical Sciences; A. Komarova (1); Professor V. Ivanova (1,2), MD, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1 -Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency, Saint Petersburg 2 -Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

Adequate and timely rehydration, diet therapy, and enterosorption using synbiotics with proven efficacy and convenient dosing are the mainstay of therapy for any type of diarrhea (including infectious one).
Keywords: 
enteric infections
children
infectious diarrheas
treatment
rehydration
diet therapy
probiotics

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