Supporting Your Child's Recovery After Surgery
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Supporting Your Child’s Recovery After Surgery

How Probiotics Can Help Protect Their Digestive System

When your child needs surgery, antibiotics are often prescribed afterwards to help prevent infection. They play a vital role in keeping your child safe — but they can also have side effects on the delicate balance of bacteria in their gut.

Antibiotics target the “bad bugs” that cause infection — but they can also reduce the “good bugs” that help your child digest food, absorb nutrients, and support their immune system.

This imbalance, known as dysbiosis, can leave their microbiome vulnerable and sometimes cause digestive discomfort or lower immune function.

How Probiotics Can Help Protect Their Digestive System
Why The Gut Microbiome Matters After Antibiotics

A healthy microbiome helps protect your child from unwanted bacteria by keeping the “bad bugs” in check. Antibiotics may disrupt that balance, which can open the door for less friendly bacteria.

The Power of Probiotics in Recovery

Certain probiotic strains can help restore balance and protect your child’s gut after antibiotics.

One of the most researched strains is L. fermentum CECT5716 — a probiotic originally discovered in breastmilk. It has been shown to help reduce the growth of harmful bacteria, while supporting the good bacteria your child needs for recovery.

The Power of Probiotics in Recovery
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How Qiara Probiotics Supports Children’s Post-Operative Recovery

L. fermentum CECT5716 (the Qiara strain) may be used before and after surgery to help increase growth of good bacteria.

Qiara is suitable to take during and after antibiotics (at least 2 hours apart) to increase the growth of good bacteria to support microbiome health, digestive function and to stimulate a healthy immune system response to assist children to recover from surgery and beyond.

This helps:
  • Support healthy digestion after antibiotics
  • Strengthen immune function
  • Restore balance in the microbiome
  • Increase the growth of good bacteria
  • Stimulate a healthy immune system response

Qiara Infant

Great gut health starts with our very first food source. The good bacteria found in breastmilk provides us with our first rock solid immune defence system.

Evidence-based, Qiara Infant helps maintain and ensure consistent support for a robust infant microbiome. It is also suitable for all infants and toddlers for everyday gut and immune system health for ages 0–24 months.

Qiara Kids

The further our kids roam, the more they open up a world of fun and curiosity and the more germs they take on board in their travels.

Qiara Kids helps you arm them with a powerful immune system to take every adventure in their stride. It is ideal for kids with sensitive tummies or food intolerances and will help get them back on track after a course of antibiotics. Formulated for kids aged 2 - 12 for robust gut and immune system health.

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References

  1. Malone, S. M., Seigel, N. S., Newland, J. G., Saito, J. M., & McKay, V. R. (2020). Understanding antibiotic prophylaxis prescribing in pediatric surgical specialties. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 41(6), 666–671. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.71
  2. Quynh A Duong, Laure F Pittet, Nigel Curtis & Petra Zimmermann. (2022). Antibiotic exposure and adverse long-term health outcomes in children: A systematic review and metaanalysis. Journal of Infection Volume 85, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 213-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2022.01.005
  3. Szultka-Młyńska, M., Janiszewska, D., Pomastowski, P., Złoch, M., Kupczyk, W., & Buszewski, B. (2021). Identification of Bacteria Associated with Post-Operative Wounds of Patients with the Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Approach. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 26(16), 5007. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26165007