Early Antibiotic Use Triples The Risk Of Developing An IBD

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Early Antibiotic Use Triples The Risk Of Developing An IBD

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This is an interesting study, on the use of antibiotics during the first year of life.
In theory, early antibiotic use could create an imbalance in the potentially beneficial and potentially harmful bacteria that establish residence in the gut during the first year of life. If the composition of these intestinal "microflora" is altered, the immune system may begin to react abnormally to some of the bacteria.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69S39E20101029

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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