Probiotics and Child Gastrointestinal Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Newborn

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Shaping Microbiota During the First 1000 Days of Life

      • Marta Selma-Royo, Maria Tarrazó, Izaskun García-Mantrana, Carlos Gómez-Gallego, Seppo Salminen, Maria Carmen Collado

      Pages 3-24

   3. Necrotizing Enterocolitis and the Preterm Infant Microbiome

      • Jillian R. Baranowski, Erika C. Claud

      Pages 25-36

   4. Can Postbiotics Represent a New Strategy for NEC?

      • Fabio Mosca, Maria Lorella Gianni, Maria Rescigno

      Pages 37-45

3. The Infant

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Preventing and Treating Colic

      • Flavia Indrio, Vanessa Nadia Dargenio, Paola Giordano, Ruggiero Francavilla

      Pages 49-56

   3. Targeting Food Allergy with Probiotics

      • Lorella Paparo, Rita Nocerino, Carmen Di Scala, Giusy Della Gatta, Margherita Di Costanzo, Aniello Buono et al.

      Pages 57-68

   4. Use of Probiotics to Prevent Celiac Disease and IBD in Pediatrics

      • Gloria Serena, Alessio Fasano

      Pages 69-81

4. The Child

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Fighting Fatty Liver Diseases with Nutritional Interventions, Probiotics, Symbiotics, and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT)

      • Valerio Nobili, Antonella Mosca, Tommaso Alterio, Sabrina Cardile, Lorenza Putignani

      Pages 85-100

   3. Probiotics in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

      • Stefano Guandalini, Naire Sansotta

      Pages 101-107

   4. Acute Infectious Diarrhea

      • Andrea Lo Vecchio, Vittoria Buccigrossi, Maria Cristina Fedele, Alfredo Guarino

      Pages 109-120

   5. Probiotics in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

      • Iva Hojsak

      Pages 121-137

   6. Clostridium difficile Colitis Prevention and Treatment

      • Meltem Dinleyici, Yvan Vandenplas

      Pages 139-146

5. Back Matter

   Pages 147-150

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This book shows the huge impact the gut microbiota has on the gastrointestinal health of humans with a particular focus on children. It also highlights the potential use of probiotic microorganisms to protect or improve children’s gastrointestinal health.

Humans are not single organisms: We are a multi-organism structure composed of ourselves and our microbiota, living in close symbiosis since birth and even before. The huge impact that the billons of microscopic cells living in our gut have on our gastrointestinal and systemic health cannot be overestimated. The enormous progress that has been made in the past decade in our still very incomplete understanding of the gut microbiota is opening the door to potential applications in human health that were simply unthinkable before.

One of the most interesting aspects of this new scientific horizon is the fact that we may identify (or even create in the laboratory) and utilize many of these “friendly bacteria” to protect, or improve our health. Thus, strains of probiotic microorganisms are being identified and studied in a vast array of clinical scenarios. Among the most investigated areas for probiotics is the gastrointestinal health of children.

The topics addressed in this book are spanning from the development of the gut microbiota in the fetus and newborn all the way to current and potential applications in disparate conditions such as necrotizing enterocolitis, or infectious, or inflammatory conditions affecting the child. 

The book is written in a rigorous, evidence based manner by an international group of outstanding experts in these fields and is aimed at pediatric gastroenterologists, pediatricians and physician scientists alike.

• Probiotics
• post-biotics
• Child gastrointestinal health
• gastrointestinal health
• Gastrointestinal diseases
• Microbiota development
• gut microbiota
• gut microbiom
• gastrointestinal microbiom
• gastrointestinal microbiota
• Necrotizing enterocolitis
• NEC
• Colic prevention
• Colic treatment
• Food allergy
• Celiac disease
• Acute Infectious Diarrhea
• Functional GI disorders
• infectious diseases

“This book is geared toward those in clinical practice who wish to provide the highest level of care to their patients. … readers with at least a basic appreciation of microbiology will get the most out of this book. ... There is no doubt that reading this book will prepare clinicians interested in probiotic therapy to use this modality more judiciously, to the benefit of those in their care.” (Joseph Runde, Doody's Book Reviews, October 25, 2019)

• Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

  Stefano Guandalini

• Department of Pediatrics, Ospedale Giovanni XXI, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Amendola, Italy

  Flavia Indrio

Stefano Guandalini, MD
Professor Emeritus and Chief,
Founder and Medical Director, Celiac Disease Center
University of Chicago, USA




Indrio Flavia, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy

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