Antibiotics after birth affects gut microbes of babies

Published on February 18, 2022

Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst others to digest milk and an increase in antimicrobial resistance, research suggests. Experts say that clinicians should consider using antibiotics in a way that causes least harm to the newborns microbiome – the community of microbes that live in our body.

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