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35 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events on the basis for the development of regional guidelines on probiotic use. In the workshops, one focused on adult gastroenterology and one on pe-diatric gastroenterology, each panelist was invited to deliver a presentation addressing country specific issues re-lating to the epidemiology of diarrheal disease, trends in acute infectious diarrhea including use of antibiotics and other medications, and traveler’s diarrhea, as well as the local use of probiotics and the availability of local guidelines on probiotics. Discussions: Panelists agreed that, while dispari-ties which were largely socioeconomic existed between countries, it was possible to develop guidelines for pro-biotic use in gastroenterology for the Asia-Pacific region. However, it was critical that such guidelines take into consideration local or national varia-tions in terms of the demographics of gastrointestinal diseases and access to and availability of various therapeutic options in the Asia-Pacific region. Discussions highlighted the need to address the quality, safety, strain specificity, and efficacy of probiotics available in the Asia-Pacific region. Regional guidelines must be aware of the most current science and clini-cal evidence as well as of the quality control of locally available products. Conclusions: This meeting provided a crucial op-portunity to explore how scientific ad-vances in the field of probiotics could be translated into effective regional interventions such as the elaboration of regional guidelines for the use of probiotics in gastroenterology.


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