Active Kids Probio

A live culture powder suitable for children – 1 billion strength, a specific combination of viable organisms from 7 strains, such as Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Bifidobacterium breve, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Bifidobacterium infantis – one of the dominant cultures in children.

Each sachet provides 1 billion live cultures, plus FOS (fructooligosaccharide) fibres.

Comes in easy-to-administer 1g sachets and in tasteless powder form.

From birth onward, this product can be given as a supplement. It is free from sugars, artificial flavors and colorings, which can be found in other children’s supplements and foods containing live cultures.

Probiotics are friendly bacteria that help to maintain the natural balance of organisms (gut flora) in the intestines. They do this by competing for space and food with harmful organisms that would otherwise make people sick, particularly if allowed to flourish and grow in large numbers.
Maintaining healthy gut flora helps us to digest food, absorb proteins, produce B vitamins and support the immune system. It also helps to protect the gut wall and prevents more harmful organisms from establishing themselves.
Each person’s mix of bacteria varies, but interactions between a person and the micro-organisms in their body, and among the microorganisms themselves, can be crucial to their health and well-being.
The delicate balance of healthy gut flora can be disrupted by a wide range of factors, including illness and the use of antibiotics (which indiscriminately destroy both good and bad bacteria in the body). Children are particularly susceptible to such disruptions.

Most probiotics are live micro-organisms that are similar to those naturally found in the gut, especially in those of breastfed infants (who have natural protection against many diseases).

Active Kids Probio is a high potency, multi-strain probiotic supplement, designed specially for children. Not only does it contain the child-specific Bifidobacterium infantis strain, it comes in an easy-to-administer tasteless powder form – it can be added to any liquid.
Providing 1 billion bacteria per sachet, the 7 strains help to ensure that parents can replenish their children’s vulnerable tummies with a diversity of beneficial flora. The friendly bacteria contained in Gut-Buddies Infantis Complex occur naturally in the digestive tracts of children.

Probiotics (FOS) are not to be confused with prebiotics, which are basically a source of food to help probiotics grow, multiply and survive in the gut.
They are fibres, which cannot be absorbed or broken down by the body and therefore serve as an excellent food source for probiotics (particularly the Bifidobacteria strain), to encourage an increase in their numbers.
While probiotics are living micro-organisms, prebiotics are non-living. When probiotics and prebiotics are mixed together, they form a synbiotic.
By nature, prebiotics do not stimulate the growth of bad bacteria or other pathogens. The official definition of “prebiotic” is: “non-digestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon, which can improve host health.”

We have therefore included the prebiotic Fruct

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