Society guideline links: Prebiotics and probiotics

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO): Practice guideline on probiotics and prebiotics (2023)

●World Allergy Organization (WAO)-McMaster University: Guidelines for allergic disease prevention (GLAD-P) – Prebiotics (2016)

●WAO-McMaster University: Guidelines for allergic disease prevention (GLAD-P) – Probiotics (2015)

●WGO: Practice guideline on acute diarrhea (2012)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on using probiotics in paediatric populations (2022)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical report on use of probiotics in preterm infants (2021)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice guidelines on the role of probiotics in the management of gastrointestinal disorders (2020)

●Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF): Patient & Family Handbook for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases, 6th edition – Supplemental, complementary, and alternative medicine in primary immunodeficiency (2019)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Monograph on management of irritable bowel syndrome (2018)

●American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS): Practice parameters for the management of Clostridium difficile infection (2015)

Europe

●European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN): Position paper on prebiotics in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders (2024)

●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Guideline on clinical nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease (2023)

●ESPGHAN: Position paper on probiotics for the management of pediatric gastrointestinal disorders (2023)

●ESPEN: Practical guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease (2020)

●ESPGHAN: Position paper on probiotics and preterm infants (2020)

●ESPGHAN: Probiotics for the prevention of nosocomial diarrhea in children (2018)

●ESPGHAN: Probiotics for the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in children (2016)

●ESPGHAN: Position paper for the use of probiotics for management of acute gastroenteritis (2014)

●ESPGHAN/European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID): Evidence-based guidelines for the management of acute gastroenteritis in children in Europe, update (2014)

●European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI): Food allergy and anaphylaxis guidelines – Primary prevention of food allergy (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA): Guidelines on infant feeding and allergy prevention (2020)

India

●Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP): Consensus guidelines for probiotic use in childhood diarrhea (2022)

●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Department of Biotechnology (DBT): Guidelines for evaluation of probiotics in food (2011)