"Good" Bacteria Help Kids with Diarrhea
(New York, Reuters Health, 5/30/02)

When Dr. Vibcke Rosenfeldt of the University Clinic of Pediatrics in Hvidovre, Denmark, and team studied 69 young children who were hospitalized for diarrhea, they found that patients treated with probiotics ("good" bacteria) had shorter hospital stays than those receiving a placebo. They also noted that those receiving probiotics were less likely to to show signs of rotavirus infection.