Probiotics are live bacteria found in certain foods or dietary supplements. These are non-pathogenic and non-toxicogenic living microorganisms useful for humans, representatives of the protective groups of the micro-biocenosis of a healthy person and natural symbiotic associations, which, when systematically consumed as drugs or as part of food products, have a beneficial effect on the human body because of improving (optimizing) the composition and biological activity protective microflora of the human gut.
Prebiotics are food substances that selectively stimulate the growth and (or) biological activity of representatives of the protective microflora of the human intestine, helping maintain its normal composition and biological activity when systematically consumed as part of food products. All prebiotics are dietary fibres, food components that are not digested by food enzymes of the human body, but are processed by beneficial intestinal microflora.
Probiotics have practically no contraindications. It is not recommended to take with cancer damage to the lymphatic and circulatory system, HIV. With caution, it is recommended to take it during pregnancy and lactation. It is permissible to give children only those drugs that do not have age restrictions.