Recent meta-analysis and clinical research studies have explored probiotics' impact on antibiotic-associated diarrhea (D'Souza AL et al., 2002) and on children's acute infectious diarrhea (Van Neil et al., 2002; Pedone et al., 2000; Pedone et al., 1999). Moreover, a recent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study out of France, explored the effect of a fermented formula, on the severity of acute diarrhea episodes in infants (Thibault et al., 2004). Although current data does not yet prove an effect and while the exact mechanism for how probiotics may affect diarrhea sufferers still isn't known, research in this area continues (Freitas et al., 2003).