ArticleInternational breastfeeding journal2016
Probiotics and mastitis: evidence-based marketing?
Article in International breastfeeding journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The preventive and therapeutic effects of probiotics on mastitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing mastitis after childbirth.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Progress of Bacteriophage Research and Application in the Treatment of Bovine Mastitis: A Review.Veterinary sciences · 2026Review
- Gut Health for Two: the Critical Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Pregnancy and Lactation.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Does the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's Clinical Protocol #36 'The Mastitis Spectrum' promote overtreatment and risk worsened outcomes for breastfeeding families? Commentary.International breastfeeding journal · 2023Article
- Increased risk of postpartum depression in women with lactational mastitis: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of oral N-acetyl cysteine on pain and plasma biochemical parameters in fibrocystic breast disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Surgery open science · 2022Article
- Bovine mastitis prevention and control in the post-antibiotic era.Tropical animal health and production · 2021Review
- Integrating evolution into medical education for women's health care practitioners.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2020Review
- Targeting gut microbiota as a possible therapy for mastitis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019Review
- Host Microbe Interactions in the Lactating Mammary Gland.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Review
- A Critical Appraisal of Probiotics for Mastitis Control.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2018Review
- Re-thinking benign inflammation of the lactating breast: Classification, prevention, and management.Women's health (London, England)Article
- The Postpartum Maternal and Newborn Microbiomes.MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursingArticle
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Abstract
Probiotics are defined as live micro-organisms, which when administered in adequate amounts, confer health benefits on the host. Scientists have isolated various strains of Lactobacilli from human milk (such as Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus salivarius), and the presence of these organisms is thought to be protective against breast infections, or mastitis. Trials of probiotics for treating mastitis in dairy cows have had mixed results: some successful and others unsuccessful. To date, only one trial of probiotics to treat mastitis in women and one trial to prevent mastitis have been published. Although trials of probiotics to prevent mastitis in breastfeeding women are still in progress, health professionals in Australia are receiving marketing of these products. High quality randomised controlled trials are needed to assess the effectiveness of probiotics for the prevention and/or treatment of mastitis.
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