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Special gum, probiotics fail to help sore throat sufferers
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This time of year, it’s not unusual to have a sore throat and to be scanning the aisles of a drug store for something that can help ease the pain. If you find yourself reaching for some highly touted probiotics or special chewing gum that promises to work wonders, you might want to keep on looking.
Researchers at the University of Southampton in England wanted to see if probiotics and xylitol [ZEYE – li – tall] gum, which have shown positive results against upper respiratory tract infections, might help treat sore throats. Part of their motivation was to find alternatives to antibiotics given concerns that the risk of antibiotic resistance is growing with the widespread use of the drugs.
The team enlisted 689 patients with sore throats in their study. A third of the group chewed xylitol gum, which is made from a birch sugar that inhibits bacterial growth. A second batch chewed Wrigley Extra gum. While the Wrigley gum did not claim to have any health benefits, the researchers felt that just chewing gum could help throat infections by generating more saliva. The rest got no gum.
Within those groups, half took probiotics and the rest took a placebo. The probiotics were benign bacteria that could help the person’s immune system. All of the participants kept a diary of their gum and probiotic use as well as their sore throat symptoms for 14 days. The window for the most severe symptoms was between days 2 and 5, so the researchers focused on that period.
The result? Neither the probiotics nor the gum showed any effectiveness against the sore throat symptoms. And thus, the search for a sore throat remedy that does not include an antibiotic continues.
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Why? HTTP Redirect status. The feed permanently redirected to another series.
What now? If you were subscribed to this series when it was replaced, you will now be subscribed to the replacement series. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
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This time of year, it’s not unusual to have a sore throat and to be scanning the aisles of a drug store for something that can help ease the pain. If you find yourself reaching for some highly touted probiotics or special chewing gum that promises to work wonders, you might want to keep on looking.
Researchers at the University of Southampton in England wanted to see if probiotics and xylitol [ZEYE – li – tall] gum, which have shown positive results against upper respiratory tract infections, might help treat sore throats. Part of their motivation was to find alternatives to antibiotics given concerns that the risk of antibiotic resistance is growing with the widespread use of the drugs.
The team enlisted 689 patients with sore throats in their study. A third of the group chewed xylitol gum, which is made from a birch sugar that inhibits bacterial growth. A second batch chewed Wrigley Extra gum. While the Wrigley gum did not claim to have any health benefits, the researchers felt that just chewing gum could help throat infections by generating more saliva. The rest got no gum.
Within those groups, half took probiotics and the rest took a placebo. The probiotics were benign bacteria that could help the person’s immune system. All of the participants kept a diary of their gum and probiotic use as well as their sore throat symptoms for 14 days. The window for the most severe symptoms was between days 2 and 5, so the researchers focused on that period.
The result? Neither the probiotics nor the gum showed any effectiveness against the sore throat symptoms. And thus, the search for a sore throat remedy that does not include an antibiotic continues.
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