Efficacy of Lactobacillus reuteri in clinical practice

Turkina L. V.

Modern ideas about immunity, confirmed by modern molecular genetic studies, completely change our understanding of the effect of intestinal bacteria on somatic health. Lactobacillus reuteri, being an important representative of the Lactobacillaceae family, has a pronounced strain-specificity, which opens up prospects for its application in clinical practice. This article discusses aspects of the clinical use of drugs containing Lactobacillus reuteri in children's patients.

Keywords:Lactobacillus reuteri, pediatric dysbiosis, treatment tactics, microbiota, intestinal permeability, commensal flora, postantibiotic dysbiosis.