Supplementing With Probiotics Reduces Risk of Common Cold By Up to 72 Percent
Daily supplements of the probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis subsp lactis may reduce the risk of the common cold (upper respiratory tract infections or URTIs), reducing fevers by 72 percent and coughs by 62 percent. In a earlier study done in China, small children who drank a mixture of probiotics twice a day during the winter and…