Antibiotics are by far the most common prescription drugs given to children. They account for about one-fourth of all medications prescribed to children, with a third of these prescriptions considered unnecessary. Other studies have shown profound short- and long-term effects of antibiotics on the diversity and composition of the bacteria in our bodies, called our microbiome.Yeah, this is a nice experiment, and sure they kill off your commensural microbes, but that's only a small part of the damage antibiotics do..
"Diseases related to metabolism and the immune system are increasing dramatically, and in many cases we don't know why," said the study's senior author Dan Knights, a computational biologist and assistant professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Biotechnology Institute. "Previous studies showed links between antibiotic use and unbalanced gut bacteria, and others showed links between unbalanced gut bacteria and adult disease. Over the past year we synthesized hundreds of studies and found evidence of strong correlations between antibiotic use, changes in gut bacteria, and disease in adulthood."
Existing evidence already proves that antibiotics-
- Allow resistant strains to proliferate- in the individuals that are treated, not just in general.
- Increase intestinal permeability and allow enteric bacteria into the abdomen and bloodstream
- And while they do that, they trigger those bacteria to release all their endotoxin, creating a whole other set of symptoms. (this has been known for sixty years)
- And- they directly disable mitochondria. Because mitochondria are descended from bacteria, their membranes are also destroyed.
And her permanent nightmare.
