Do the bacteria in the digestive tract die when you take antibiotics?

Yes, antibiotics generally attack all bacteria in the body. This is why you will notice your skin clear up as you take antibiotics for an internal infection. Good bacteria and bad bacteria all are attacked. Various antibiotics can attack different strains more than others.

Do the bacteria in the digestive tract die when you take antibiotics?
Depending on the antibiotice, that can occur. Their is a new theory that the appendix actually acts as a shelter for bacteria, so that when this happens (it can also occur with infection of some hostile bacteria) the intestine can be repopulated.





You can minmize the symptoms when this occurs by eating yogurt with live cultures.
Reply:Of course. That isn't to say the gut is sterilized, by any means, but a lot of bugs die, and it's enough that in one patient of six to one in fifteen, diarrhea follows a course of simple outpatient antibiotic therapy precisely because of the change in intestinal flora.
Reply:the antibiotics, contain substances that inhibit either the growth of bacteria, lyse them or in any other form stop them from reproducing further generations. THEY CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD BACTERIA AND DO KILL BACTERIA IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT TOO. For eg, E.Coli present in the digestive tract produces vitamin B12 as per body requirement, a person on high antibiotic dose often experiences deficiency symptoms of Vit B12 because the bacteria producing the vitamin in the tract have been killed by the high antibiotic dosage.

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