Insights into Co-prescribing Probiotics and Prebiotics with PPIs in India
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Overview
Co-prescribing pre-and probiotics mitigates the potential side effects of long-term PPI use, survey on 1000 plus doctors concludes.
Published in the latest December issue of JAPI, the survey included 1007 healthcare professionals (HCPs) nationwide, followed by 4 PAN India round table meetings.
With this, the doctors aimed to establish a consensus on the national pattern of PPI prescription and disseminate evidence-based recommendations for utilization of probiotics as an adjunct to PPIs.
Based on consensus results, panellists recommended five commandments.
Level 1 and Level 2 commandments were defined on HCP agreements >50% and 30-50% respectively.
A notable consensus emerged among contributors bringing out that co-prescribing pre- and probiotics with PPIs could yield favorable outcomes; thereby enhancing overall Quality of Life (QoL) of patients.
Speakers
Dr. Nandita Mohan
BDS, MDS( Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry)
Dr. Nandita Mohan is a practicing pediatric dentist with more than 5 years of clinical work experience. Along with this, she is equally interested in keeping herself up to date about the latest developments in the field of medicine and dentistry which is the driving force for her to be in association with Medical Dialogues. She also has her name attached with many publications; both national and international. She has pursued her BDS from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and later went to enter her dream specialty (MDS) in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences. Through all the years of experience, her core interest in learning something new has never stopped. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751
