Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine

• Probiotics: The Basics.- Basics of GI Physiology and Mucosal Immunology.- What Pediatricians Need to Know about the Analysis of the Gut Microbiota.- Role of Microflora in Disease.- Probiotics 101.- Mechanisms of Probiotic Regulation of Host Homeostasis.- Safety Issues of Probiotic Ingestion.- Probiotics and Infants.- Neonatal and Infant Microflora.- Probiotics in Infant Dietetics.- Necrotizing Enterocolitis: The Role of Probiotics in Prevention.- Probiotics and the Gut.- Irritable Bowel Syndrome.- The Role of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Infectious Diarrhea in Children.- Probiotics in Crohn's Disease.- Probiotics in Ulcerative Colitis.- Pouchitis.- Probiotics in Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile Infection.- Probiotics and the Immunocompromised Host.- Role of Probiotics in the Management of Helicobacter pylori Infection.- Probiotics Outside the Gut.- Probiotics in Treatment and/or Prevention of Allergies.- The Role of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Asthma.- The Impact of Probiotics on Maternal and Child Health: Clinical Evidence.- Probiotics Products.- Probiotics in Foods and Supplements.- The Application of Prebiotics and Synbiotics in Pediatrics.- The Future of Probiotics.- Probiotic Future.- The Quality Control of Probiotics in Food and Dietary Supplements.

From the reviews: "Dr. Bendich writes an excellent introduction placing the importance of probiotics in the field of biology and medicine. ... There is a great deal of valuable information in this book. ... Overall, the information in this book is good. Anyone working in the field of probiotics should have it on their shelf. ... anyone intensely interested in probiotics and familiar with the literature would find the chapters written by these experts helpful." (Martin H. Floch, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Vol. 43 (7), August, 2009) "Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine ... providing an excellent, thorough, and complete reference text focused on the normal physiology of gut microbiota in children and the role of probiotic bacteria in childhood health and disease. The purpose of this book is to help clinicians, particularly pediatricians ... . For the student or trainee, it is an excellent resource for building a knowledge base in probiotics ... . Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine is a valuable resource and well worth reading for anyone interested in probiotics ... ." (Jeffry A. Katz, Gastroenterology, Vol. 138, 2010) "Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine provides an excellent resource covering the basics of GI physiology and the complex nature of gut immunity, the microflora within the human gut, and especially its development during the neonatal period. ... contains more than 30 detailed tables and informative figures, an extensive, detailed index, and more than 1600 reference citations that provide the reader with excellent sources of reliable information ... . This compendium will serve the reader as the primary reference in this complex area ... ." (Michael J. Glade, Nutrition, Vol. 26, 2010)