Overview
- Highlights impact of gut microbiota on gastrointestinal and systemic health
- Shows current and potential applications of probiotics in disparate conditions of children
- Addresses gut microbiota and conditions spanning from newborn to infant and child
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1125)
Part of the book sub series: Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health (AMIDPH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Child
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Probiotics and Child Gastrointestinal Health
Book Subtitle: Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Volume 10
Editors: Stefano Guandalini, Flavia Indrio
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14636-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14635-1Published: 28 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14638-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14636-8Published: 17 June 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Gastroenterology