First, let's learn about the efficacy of probiotics.
Probiotics can promote the microecological balance in the baby's intestine and inhibit harmful bacteria that can cause disease. Many studies have proved that probiotics are beneficial to treat diarrhea caused by some reasons (such as viral gastroenteritis and antibiotic-associated enteritis).
Probiotics also have the following functions:
Regulating constipation: Probiotics can help to improve and relieve constipation, because probiotics can closely combine with intestinal mucosal epithelial cells to form a microbial protective layer, which can resist foreign harmful bacteria and inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria. Probiotics produce organic acids such as lactic acid and acetic acid in the metabolic process, which reduces the PH value of the intestine, forms an acidic environment of the intestine, promotes the normal peristalsis of the intestine and relieves constipation.
Help digestion: infants and young children have less digestive enzymes, and their digestive and absorption functions are worse than those of adults. At the same time, the secretion of digestive alcohol is easily affected by hot weather and diseases, and indigestion is prone to occur. For example, lactase deficiency is the most common digestive enzyme deficiency in infants. Probiotics can produce organic acids such as lactic acid and acetic acid during metabolism, reduce intestinal PH, inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria, and prevent food from fermentation and corruption, thus alleviating abdominal pain during indigestion and helping to avoid developing diarrhea. Probiotics can also secrete lactase to help digest lactose and reduce abdominal distension and diarrhea caused by lactose intolerance.
Regulating immunity: Probiotics can enhance the specific and non-specific intestinal defense mechanism, protect the body from infection, enhance the intestinal barrier function, and avoid the occurrence of immune diseases such as infection and allergy. Probiotics can help the body to remove pathogenic microorganisms and potential allergic antigens, and avoid the occurrence of immune diseases such as infection and allergy.
To sum up, probiotics actually have little preventive effect on dental caries. If you have dental caries, it is recommended to carry out targeted treatment and care under the guidance of a doctor, such as applying fluoride to fix your teeth.