Probiotics: Treatment for Diarrhoea
Author(s): Jayanand*, Sanjeev Mittal, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ajay Kumar, Krishna Raj singh
Abstract
Diarrhoea is termed as a state when a human being suffers from at least three incidents of watery liquid and successive loose bowl movement arising from either due to some infection inside the gut or due to some other underlying health condition that results in improper working of the digestive system as the food consumed by the person does not completely digests and eventually results in onset of diarrhoea. Many medications are provided for the treatment of diarrhoea but all the medications prescribed by the medical practitioners show some side effects and are not advisable for the patients of all age groups. Thus to give the patient ease from the side effect of medications the study provides a means for treating diarrhoea by consuming probiotic rich food and opens a future prospects to carry out more research on the effectiveness of probiotic food for other gut related ailments in order to cure patients.