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Probiotics And Infants – What These Beneficial And Live Micro Organisms Can Do For ELBW Infants

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Worried? Wondering what you can do to help your infant who has extremely low birth weight? Yeah? Then you should read on!

You see, extremely low birth weight infants (known as ELBW for short) who were fed together with probiotics showed better weight gain than those ELBW infants who were not given the said supplements. That’s what the randomized, controlled, and double blind study showed which was presented back in May 1, Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies (or PAS) annual meeting held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (more…)