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Old 07-29-2014, 03:39 AM  
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I have read, have you? Antibiotics are based on killing livings things in your body, and antibiotics don't really separate what they kill, they will kill also all the organisms vital to your immune system (located mainly in your digestion channel). Not all dies and after antibiotic treatment you can use pills containing those organisms to establish new "colony", but the diversity suffers for lifetime. Even after one antibiotic treatment you wont have as big diversity within these useful organisms, as before.
Quoting myself, about the antibiotics.

"Antibiotics have cowed many of our old bacterial enemies into submission: We aimed to blast them off the planet, and we dosed accordingly. Now we are beginning to reap the consequences. It turns out that not all germs are bad ? and even some bad germs are not all bad. In ?Missing Microbes,? Dr. Blaser, a professor at the New York University School of Medicine, presents the daunting array of reasons we have to rethink the enthusiastic destruction of years past."

"Second, as always, it is the hapless bystanders who have suffered the most ? not human beings, mind you, but the gazillions of benevolent, hardworking bacteria colonizing our skin and the inner linings of our gastrointestinal tracts. We need these good little creatures to survive, but even a short course of antibiotics can destroy their universe, with incalculable casualties and a devastated landscape. Sometimes neither the citizenry nor the habitat ever recovers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/he...harm.html?_r=0
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