It's that time of year again--the t...

It's that time of year again--the time when the little commons bring home all sorts of nasty bug and viruses. Are there any preventative measures a parent can take? According to a modern study in the British Medical Journal, drinking probiotic milk may help obstruct respiratory infections among children in day care.

In the cogitation 571 healthy children were divided into sum of two units groups; one group received regular milk, the other received milk complemented with lactobacillus GG, a "healthy" bacteria. The terminates showed that children given probiotic milk had fewer days of absence as well as a 17 percent reduction in respiratory infections. While probiotic milk is not publicly available to consumers, most yogurt contains several strains of beneficial bacteria. Lactobacillus is also available in correlative form.

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