H. Szajewska: Research investigation of -biotics

We are talking to Dr. Hania Szajewska of Warsaw, who as a newly fledged paediatric hepatogastroenterologist one day in Houston at a joint ESPGHAN / NASPGHAN meeting a few years back volunteered to collaborate in an international research investigation of -biotics (pro-, pre-, sym-, and post- are the flavours that she defines for us) and from then on has made the evidence-based study of these aids to establishing, maintaining, and restoring enteral health her high-flying career.  Heady times, when central Europe had just embarked on remodelling her societies; all the long-closed doors flung wide open, among them those to ESPGHAN's conferences and summer-schools, which she recommends as strongly as possible to young colleagues !  The -biotics topic is immense, and the clinical deployment of -biotics is complex, but in twenty minutes her tour d'horizon addresses conditions that respond to these therapies, touches on mechanisms by which the therapies act, and points us to newly issued ESPGHAN guidelines, just published in J PEDIATR GASTROENTEROL NUTR, to various agents and to how to use them — if you can’t be an expert in -biotics, as she is, then the next best thing is to have expertise at your fingers’ tips, and that is what these guidelines supply