A Recent Review of the Published Data on Probiotic Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis had this to say...
A recent review of the published data on probiotic treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) in children revealed the need for further clinical studies to be done with newer probiotic preparations. Hence, a new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, prospective trial was recently done and published in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology using Lactobacillus acidophilusDDS-1, Bifidobacterium lactis UABLA-12 with fructo-oligosaccharide at a dosage of 5 billion colony-forming units twice daily for 8 weeks for the treatment of AD. The treatment trial was done on 90 children ages 1-3 years with moderate-to-severe AD. The results demonstrated a “significant clinical improvement in children with AD.”
Commentary:
Atopic dermatitis is an allergy-associated, reactive dermatitis common in children. It is usually treated with steroidal creams or immune suppressing topical agents and, at times, oral steroids. If we can lesson a child's exposure to these steroidal and immune-suppressing agents while inducing a "significant clinical improvement" in their AD in a safe and inexpensive manner, we should be actively pursuing this treatment.
Dr. Donovan is a Naturopathic Physician, author, educator, and a professor of clinical medicine at Bastyr University's Natural Health Clinic. In 2010 he was voted by his professional peers as one of Seattle’s Top Doctors in the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. Dr. Donovan writes and lectures on the transformational process of healing and believes a person’s healing journey is ultimately a quest for his/her identity, purpose and meaning. He has more than 35 years of patient care experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Naturopathic Physician (ND), representing a wide range of clinical settings from hospital-based surgical and intensive care as a registered nurse to outpatient primary care as a physician.
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