Preventing otitis media and respiratory tract infections with the oral probiotic Streptococcus salivarius K12
Caroline Halley, Claire Honeywill, Janice Kang, Phillipa Barnes, Gordon Purdie, Gwyneth Steenson, Rae Noble-Adams, Thorsten Stanley, Kathryn Fuge, Lynn McBain, Ben Hudson, Julian Crane · 2026
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Caroline Halley and co-authors run a large trial of an oral probiotic to prevent ear infection in infants, in a study from two thousand twenty-six. Ear and airway infections drive much antibiotic use in small children. Over four hundred babies in two New Zealand cities took the probiotic or a placebo daily from six to twenty-four months.
Doctor-recorded ear infections hit about thirty-nine percent of the placebo group and thirty-seven percent of the probiotic group, a gap too small to trust. First infection timing, illness severity, airway infections, and antibiotic use all matched as well. Higher adherence changed nothing. The authors advise against routine use for this purpose.
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| CREATOR | Caroline Halley, Claire Honeywill, Janice Kang, Phillipa Barnes, Gordon Purdie, Gwyneth Steenson, Rae Noble-Adams, Thorsten Stanley, Kathryn Fuge, Lynn McBain, Ben Hudson, Julian Crane |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |