Even though probiotics have health benefits, preventing childhood asthma is not one of them, say researchers.

The rate of doctor-diagnosed asthma was 11.2 per cent amoung infants who received probiotics and 10.2 per cent amoung babies who received the placebo.
Azad said that taking probiotics had no effect on the asthma rate, asserting that it can't really be advised as a strategy to prevent asthma.
She said that there's really good evidence that probiotics are beneficial to infants who are born pre-term and suffer from a bowel condition.
Azad said that there's also good evidence that probiotics might prevent eczema.
Her team made another interesting finding that warrants more research: babies who received probiotics as infants or in utero had higher incidences of lower respiratory infections.
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Source-ANI