Category Archives: Baby

  “Research has shown that bacteria talk to the brain and our immune system,” says Rinarani Sanghavi, M.D., Director of Neurogastroenterology and GI Motility at Children’s Health℠ and Associate Professor at UT Southwestern. She added that probiotics may play a huge role in brain development, cognition and mood because each child has their own individual […]

  Prevent the incidence of NEC in breastfed infants  Postpartum maternal supplementation with probiotic bacteria may decrease the incidence of NEC in breastfed infants. Necrotising enterocolitis, or NEC, is a serious disease that affects the intestines of premature infants. It typically happens within the first 2 weeks of life in babies who are fed formula […]