Effect of Antibiotics
We all know that antibiotics can alter the intestinal flora. What is not known with certainty is that some drugs can prolong this imbalance until two years after vaccination, according to research by Swedish especialisras.
The study’s author, Cecilia Jernberg, explained that this “increases the risk of infection reduces the success of future treatments with antibiotics and produce new strains of bacteria resistant to these drugs.
Intestinal flora and antibiotics
Is a set of “good” bacteria and “bad” located in the digestive system, essential to protect the gut from infection.
With the use of antibiotics, the balance of the flora is broken and composition changes. It was thought that the flora is naturally restored in about two weeks, at most a month and indicate that not always.
This study demonstrates that bacterial imbalance could “be extended to two years, even with short-term treatment of only seven days,” write the authors in Sweden. This would mean, adding that “it can trigger new diseases and antibiotic-resistant organisms would develop further.”
Antibiotics with caution
Given the results, managers of research suggests that antibiotics are used with caution as there is nothing for resistance to these drugs.
It is important to be more rational use of these drugs and restrict them to people who really need it.