How Can Probiotics Support The Aviation?

Abstract

In military aviation the staff has to be in perfect psychical and physical condition so thus to keep their medical eligibility is one of the most important tasks in military medicine. To guarantee the aircrew deployability we need to treat the disease, and at the same time we have to make an effort for prevention and health protection. The paper presents the nowadays more and more widely used probiotics. It gives an overwiev of their function in physiological and pathophysiological condition, with the summary of national and international controlled trials. In addition it analyzes if the probiotics can be used in the most common infections causing temporary disability of soldiers.