Probiotic cuts risk of respiratory infections in formula-fed babies
Babies who are formula fed are more prone to infections, but the addition of a probiotic supplement containing sugars from breast milk slashed the risk of such infants catching respiratory viruses
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Adding a probiotic supplement to formula milk slashed rates of respiratory infections in babies who weren’t breastfed. Infections are more common in formula-fed babies , but the supplement – which contained both sugars from breast milk and the bacteria needed to ferment them – produced fatty molecules that seemed to strengthen the infants’ immune systems. This helped them eliminate viruses that cause symptoms like sneezing and a runny nose.
“It’s phenomenally exciting,” says Daniel Davis at Imperial College London, who wasn’t involved in the research. A high burden of early-life infections has…
