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Use of probiotics in preventing antibiotic associated diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea in spinal injury centres: An international survey of four western European countries

Wong, S., Saif, M., O'Driscoll, J. , Kumar, N., Smith, É., Roels, E., Van Nes, I., Faber, W., McKeown, E., Hirani, S. P. & Jamous, A. (2015). Use of probiotics in preventing antibiotic associated diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea in spinal injury centres: An international survey of four western European countries. International Journal of Probiotics & Prebiotics, 10(2/3), pp. 85-90.

Abstract

Probiotics may prevent antibiotic-associatedand Clostridium difficile-associated- diarrhoea (AAD/CDAD). Many spinal cord injury centres (SCICs) practitioners consider probiotics generically and may not realise that efficacy can be strain-, dose-, and disease-specific. One to four SCICs per country (depending on population size) were contacted (UK:4; the Netherlands:3; Belgium: I; Republic of Ireland: 1) to (a) determine if they stocked probiotics; (b) determine whether the use of those probiotics was evidence-based; and (c) document their C. difficile infection (CDI) practices. All nine SCICs responded to the survey (7 physicians, 3 microbiologists, 1 nurse and 2 dietitians). Five (55.5%) stocked probiotics; five different probiotics were identified. Four probiotics were preferred choice prevention o f AAD/CDAD were Lactobacillus casei Shirota (44.4%), L. casei D N -114001 (22.2%), L. acidophilus (22.2%) and a mixed-strains probiotic (Ecologic Pro-AD) (11.1%). Only one evidence base study was identified supporting the use of probiotic for prevention of AAD in SCI patients. Mean CDI cases per 10,000 patient-days were 0.307 (s.d: 0.486, range 0.00 to 1.08). Definitions of diarrhoea and CDI varied among SCICs. Stocking probiotics for the prevention of AAD / CDAD is not common. There is only one single study showing efficiency of a particular strain in SCI populations. The study highlighted the importance of using a standardised definition o f diarrhoea when conducting AAD/CDAD research.

Publication Type: Article
Publisher Keywords: Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, Clostridium difficile' Probiotics, Spinal cord injury, Survey
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Departments: School of Health & Psychological Sciences
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