Probiotic treatment of intestinal flora lesion caused by antibiotic therapy

Introduction: Diarrhoea develops in about 5–40% of in-patients treated with antibiotics. It is possible to apply probiotics instead of antibiotics to treat and prevent this type of infections. Aim: Our aim was to examine what kind of probiotic micro-organism is beneficial in the prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea and find out whether antibiotics destroy the probiotics. Does the probiotics affect proliferation of bacteria causing gastrointestinal infections and development of infections in vitro? Materials and Methods: We analyzed the effect of B. clausii, L. acidophilus LA-5, L. bulgaricus, B. Bifidum…