Emerging treatments
Probiotics
US guidelines suggest that probiotic preparations may be offered to reduce symptom severity and duration of infectious or antimicrobial-associated diarrhoea.[24] However, one Cochrane review found that probiotics probably make little or no difference to the risk of infectious diarrhoea lasting 48 hours or more (moderate certainty evidence).[44] Interpretation of relevant studies is limited by statistical heterogeneity.[24][44]
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