Lactobacillus reuteri in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

Can a single bacterium improve a chronic condition of intestinal inflammation? It would indeed appear that the Lactobacillus reuteri helps in the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis, and in human medicine it has been cleared as a potential therapeutic tool for patients with IBD. A review from China in 2020 summarizes current knowledge on the role of L. reuteri in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is characterized by chronic inflammation of the intestine of unknown etiology. The main clinical symptoms of IBD are abdominal pain, diarrhea and hematochezia, which seriously impair patients’ quality of life. IBD and gut microbiota IB...