4. Discussion
URTIs, first-ever
GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS
The evidence leading to a justified conclusion that bovine colostrum provides effective prevention against the URTIs is building up. Our results demonstrating this effect in terms of frequency and severity of URTIs in pre-school children come from the first-ever reported randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled trial performed with a general, presumably healthy population. Previous reports from the pediatric field, predominantly presenting very promising data on the effectiveness of colostrum in the prevention of respiratory, as well as gastrointestinal infections, were based on observational cohort studies [