The food probióticos is that that contain concrete microorganisms in sufficient number to alter or to modify the intestinal flora and can exercise beneficial effects for the health. Between they are the lactobacillus, certain coconuts gram positive, the Saccharomyces, and the Bifidobacterias.

The bacteria that they are considered how probióticos they are:

The lactobacillus has a beneficial effect in the infantile sharp diarrhea improving the intensity and duration of the same one. The probióticos serve to prepare the diarrhea associated with the use of antibiotics of wide bogey.

Beneficial effects have been demonstrated in the intolerance to the lactose, they seem to have effects inmunoestimuladores of the defenses of the organism. They diminish or improve the allergic illnesses and especially it has effects in constipation and intestinal illnesses.

In the dairy products, principally yogures products can be probióticos, but the doses are usually falls.

There are products farmaceúticos with big content of probióticos (Lactofilus, Casenfilus, Infloran, Lacteol, Salvacon, Ultralevura).