Customer Testimonials
“Probiotics have been great, really noticed that the girls have been that much more resilient especially at the end of the day when instead of a high maintenance crowd, a bit of reason prevails. Also all around them have been going down with one bug or another but the girls have been ok! How fab is that? Only problem is that we are now out of sachets!” - Fawzia, Hertfordshire (mother of 3)
“I have been giving my 8 month old daughter For your child’s health for the last two months. She was delivered by emergency C-section and born at 3lbs due to IUGR and pre eclampsia at 36 weeks. She had a very immature gut, suffered badly with cows milk protein intolerance, reflux, colic, terrible constipation, spasms in her bowel and chronic wind. Attempts at weaning at 6 months upset her digestion terribly and only through a combination of hypoallergenic milk and probiotics were we able to reduce her discomfort and wean her onto solid foods. I would seriously recommend For your child’s health to any mother whose baby is suffering with an immature digestion, passing stools, wind, or has an allergy. I believe that they are responsible for finally getting my daughter on to solid foods without discomfort… I feel strongly that other parents should be made aware of the benefits of using probiotics with premature babies.” – Catherine, Ascot, Berkshire.
“Day 7 - I have been taking For your child’s health for 7 days now, my eczema seems to be clearing up quite fast and that is without using cream. I noticed this about 4 days after starting the course. My skin feels overall softer and the redness has gone down 50%.
Day 14 – At the moment my skin looks like a normal person that does not suffer from eczema!
Day 28 – In general my skin looks and feels great.” Charlotte (aged 14), Hampshire
“During November and December 2008 our son Jack, aged four, was given OptiBac Probiotics For your child’s health. We found the most effective way to deliver was to mix the powder with his milkshake or breakfast cereal. We noticed a change in behaviour, in the sense that Jack became more buoyant and active, and was certainly resilient to his usual bout of coughs and colds, runny nose and general malaise at this time of the year. Jack was a premature section birth and has continually been prone to minor ailments. This product has certainly shown positive results for him” John, Wiltshire.
Recent research on probiotics and infants & children
OptiBac Probiotics For your child’s health reducing childhood infections. – May 2009 - The Institut Rosell led a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on OptiBac Probiotics For your child’s health, finding that the combination of probiotics and prebiotics could reduce the incidence of infant infections by 25%. The synbiotic was found to reduce the incidence of Ear-nose-throat( (ENT), bronchopulmonary or gastric disorder in children during the winter season.
Eczema in infants, and diversity of gut bacteria. - September 2008 - Infants with eczema were found to have less variation in their gut microbiota than babies without eczema, according to a small study at Harvard by Forno et al.
Probiotics and prebiotics in the prevention of eczema in infants - October 2007 - Australian researchers analysed 12 studies covering 2,000 infants to find that probiotics such as Lactobacillus rhamnosus, and prebiotics such as GOS and FOS demonstrated benefits for various allergic and atopic diseases, and food intolerances. The majority of the studies analysed for this report administered probiotics during the mother’s pregnancy or when breastfeeding, or added probiotics to infant formula for the first six months.
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 4. "Prebiotics in infants for prevention of allergic disease and food hypersensitivity" Authors: D.A. Osborn, J.K. Sinn
Probiotics and childhood constipation - August 2007 - A pilot study by Bekkali et al analysed the benefits of probiotic species including Bifidobacteria bifidum, Bifidobacteria infantis and Lactobacillus rhamnosus in children aged 4-16 years who were suffering from constipation. The probiotics generally resulted in an increased amount of bowel movements and a decrease in faecal incontinence, as well as less abdominal pain.
Probiotics and premature babies - May 2007 - An analysis of various studies covering more than 1000 infants given different probiotic supplements found a reduced risk of necrotising enterocolitis in babies given probiotics as opposed to those on placebos. The report also stated a 53% reduction in the risk of mortality. Babies administered with probiotics were found to be 74% less at risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis - one of the commonest gastrointestinal diseases in premature infants.
Source: The Lancet. 12-18 May 2007, Volume 369, Issue 9573, Pages 1614-1620. "Probiotics for prevention of necrotising enterocolitis in preterm neonates with very low birthweight: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials"
Probiotics & Prebiotics in infant formula, fewer infections and less constipation - January 2007 - A study by Nestle found that formula with Bifidobacterium longum and the prebiotics GOS and FOS was beneficial to the general health of infants. The study covered 138 infants and gave each of them either a synbiotic mix (with both prebiotics and probiotics) in their formula, or a placebo control. The conclusion was that children with the synbiotic mix had less incidences of constipation, as well as less infections of the respiratory tract.
Source: Nutrition January 2007, Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 1-8 "Clinical evaluation of a new starter formula for infants containing live Bifidobacterium longum BL999 and prebiotics" Authors: G. Puccio, C. Cajozzo, F. Meli, F. Rochat, D. Grathwohl and P. Steenhout
Prebiotics and childhood infections - October 2006 - A small study at the Paris Université René Descartes involving 35 healthy children administered either oligofructose (FOS) or a maltodextrin placebo for a period of 21 days. Children given the prebiotics were found to have increased Bifidobacteria in the faeces, and significantly decreased levels of the potentially harmful bacteria, Clostridia. They also caught fewer infectious diseases, and demonstrated less flatulence, diarrhoea, vomiting and fever when compared to the children given the placebo.
Clinical Research on probiotics and infants & children
Marschan, E. et al (2008). ‘Probiotics in infancy induce protective immune profiles that are characteristic for chronic low-grade inflammation’ Clinical and Experimental Allergy – the Journal of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Feb 11
Rautava, S. et al (2002). ‘Probiotics during pregnancy and breast-feeding might confer immunomodulatory protection against atopic disease in the infant’. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Jan Vol. 109 (1), pp. 119-121
Rosenfeldt V, Michaelsen KF, Jakobsen M, et al Effect of probiotic Lactobacillus strains in young children hospitalized with acute diarrhea. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002;21 :411 –416
Saavedra, J.M. et al. (1994) Feeding of Bifidobacterium bifidum and Streptococcus thermophilus to infants in hospital for prevention of diarrhoea and shedding of rotavirus. The Lancet. Oct 15;344(8929):1046-9.
Fukushima, Y. et al (1998). Effect of a probiotic formula on intestinal immunoglobulin A production in healthy children. International Journal of Food Microbiology. Vol. 42 (1-2), pp. 39 - 44
Zajewska H, Mrukowicz JZ. Probiotics in the treatment and prevention of acute infectious diarrhea in infants and children: a systematic review of published randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2001;33(suppl 2) :S17 –S25)
Langhendries, J.P. et al. Effect of fermented infant formula containing viable bifidobacteria on the fecal flora composition and pH of healthy full-term infants: J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 21, 2, 177081, 1995.
Van Niel, C. W. et al (2002). 
