An interesting article from Slate about probiotics and colic.

Cure for Colic?  Hope for a pediatrician's miracle treatment.

By Sydney Spiesel
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, at 2:46 PM ET 

One of the most trying problems for parents of young infants is colic, those
awful bouts of evening crying and inconsolable fussiness between the ages of
three weeks and three months. Severe colic is miserable for parents-there is
nothing worse than being unable to comfort your suffering baby-and
frustrating for doctors. But now
<http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/1/e124> a
new study describes a promising treatment from an unlikely source: a germ.
In particular, a probiotic, or live culture of a bacterium often found in
the gastrointestinal tract. 

More here.  http://www.slate.com/id/2158605/

 

Hilary Frambes

LLL Leader, Plain City, OH

 

 


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