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Can antibiotics cause asthma and allergies in children?
Quite a few parents ask the doctor for antibiotics even though in many cases (say flu) it will not help at all.
A new study has found that it may even harm their long-term health
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Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 06:39
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The flu season, colds and coughs are already here, but contrary to what many parents think, the cure for all of these is not antibiotics, but time.
Quite a few doctors today are more bothered by too frequent use of antibiotics, than by a few days of fever.
Now, a new study has found that children under the age of two who have received antibiotics multiple times may suffer from ongoing illnesses or conditions later in life.
According to a study published this week at the Mayo Clinic.
Infants and toddlers who received a single dose of antibiotics were at higher risk for asthma, eczema, hay fever, food allergies, celiac disease, weight problems and obesity, and ADHD later in childhood.
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"We want to emphasize that this study shows a link between these conditions, rather than causality," said study author Nathan Bresier, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic's Aging Center.
"These findings suggest a focus for future research to determine more reliable and safer approaches to scheduling, dosing, and antibiotics for children in this age group."
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The researchers analyzed data from more than 14,500 children in Rochester's Epidemiology Project, a long-term study that analyzes the medical records of volunteers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
About 70 percent of the children in the study received antibiotics at least once, with most receiving antibiotics several times.
Take only when really needed.
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"Among children who received one or two prescriptions, only girls were at significantly higher risk of developing asthma and celiac disease compared to those who were not exposed," Lebresour and his team wrote. The sexes, ADHD and celiac disease in girls, and obesity in boys. "
The study found that infants of both sexes who received five or more prescriptions were at significantly higher risk of developing asthma, allergic rhinitis, overweight, obesity and ADHD.
Girls were at higher risk for celiac disease.
The study found that penicillin, the most common type of antibiotic, was linked to an increased risk of asthma and obesity in both sexes, celiac disease and ADHD in girls, and obesity in boys. Most of situations.
Pay attention, certainly in the first years of baby development.
Child taking medication (Photo: shutterstock)
The long-term effect of the antibiotic may be due to a disorder of the bacteria in the baby's gut, which is necessary for the normal development of the immune system, nerve development, body composition and metabolism.
Antibiotics do not discriminate between "good" and "bad" bacteria in the digestive tract, killing them all and leaving the gut without the proper microbiome distribution.
We need certain bacteria to absorb nutrients, break down food in the gut and protect the entire digestive system from pathogens.
"When antibiotics were first developed, the overriding consideration was pathogen control," the study said, "We now understand that their widespread application has a significant security impact on the microbiome, which may be of particular importance in pediatric development."
According to them, further studies are needed to confirm or refute these findings because it is still unclear whether this is a correlation or causality.
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