A Randomized open label comparative clinical study of synbiotic against probiotic in the treatment of acute diarrhoea in children

Acute Gastroenteritis is one of the most frequent diseases in the childhood that leads to severe dehydration and has no specific treatment. Probiotics are known to beneficially modulate several host functions, the most important of which are immune responses and intestinal barrier integrity. Lactobacillus is well described as a probiotic which reduces the number of days of hospitalization and also the severity. The overall goal of this study is to compare the efficacy synbiotic against probiotic in reducing the duration and frequency of acute diarrhoea in children Synbiotic is effective in reducing the duration and frequency of acute diarrhoea in children when administered along with standard therapy