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Inflammatory Bowel Disease
DESTRUCTION OF NORMAL FLORA THROUGH USE OF ANTIBIOTICS – (07-23-07)
James Bogash
Gut-associated bacterial microbiota in paediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease
This study identified alterations in the gut bacteria of pediatric patients w/ IBD (Crohn’s, Ulcerative colitis), both increases in pathogenic bacteria and reductions in protective.
The bottom line is that destruction of normal flora through the indiscriminate use of antibiotics will have a much further reaching consequence then what most prescribing pediatricians will ever be aware of.
