Probiotici tra clinica, mercato e sicurezza

Today probiotics are prescribed to treat several symptoms and gastrointestinal diseases. Their use is often suggested by commercials and marketing more than by controlled clinical studies. However, data show that probiotics are useful in reducing important symptoms such as infective diarrhoea, abdominal pain in functional bowel disease, help to maintain remission in ulcerative colitis and control symptoms in colonic diverticular disease.