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. 2021 Feb 5;2021(2):CD013534. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013534.pub2

Migacheva 2018.

Study characteristics
Methods Study design: randomised, controlled trial
Treatment arms: 2
AD follow‐up: 12 months
Participants Randomised: N = 63
Inclusion criteria:
  1. Family history of allergy


Exclusion criteria: 
  1. Prematurity

  2. Supplementation (including short‐term use of children milk formulas in the maternity hospital)

  3. Appointment of probiotics

  4. Use of drugs by nursing mother

  5. Use of special means of baby skin care (emollients)

Interventions Intervention: infants in the intervention group received full‐body emollient therapy (cream) twice a day starting within 3 weeks of birth in combination with supplementation of synbiotic containing LGG and fructo‐oligosaccharides at the age of 3 to 6 months
Comparator: parents in the control group were asked to use no emollients and no pro/prebiotics during the study period
Adherence to the application came in at 95.2% by the end of the study, which reassured that the process was feasible
Outcomes Cumulative incidence of AD at 12 months, as assessed by a trained investigator
Adverse events: no intervention‐related adverse events occurred
Identification Country: Russia
Sponsorship source: not reported
Declarations of interest Not reported
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