Stabilized bacterial composition comprising dried cells or dried culture of a viable lactic acid bacterial strain, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dried cells or the dried culture, a vacuum- dried edible vegetable oil for use in increasing survival of the dried cells or the dried culture and method of increasing survival of the dried cells or the dried culture
Selected strains of Lactobacillus and products containing cells of the selected strains to improve breast milk for feeding to babies, more precisely to increase the levels of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL10 in the milk and reduce the risk that the feeding baby will develop allergies and simultaneously reduce the cause and thereby the amount of TGF-beta-2 in the milk, thus resulting in reduced risk for the lactating mother to develop mastitis.
