Constant usage of Antibiotic use may make kids obese in adulthood.

New studies shows that the commonly prescribed antibiotics can lead to changes in the gut bacteria of kids and make them vulnerable to contagious diseases, allergies and other autoimmune disorders, and even obesity.

“Over the past year we synthesised hundreds of studies and found evidence of strong correlations between antibiotic use, changes in gut bacteria, and disease in adulthood,”’ said the study’s senior author Dan Knights, assistant professor at University of Minnesota.

Some of the common prescription drugs given to children are antibiotics. Other studies have shown profound short- and long-term repercussions of antibiotic. The study developed a framework to map how antibiotics may be acting in the gut to cause disease later in life. Constant use of antibiotics may eradicate key gut bacteria that aids immune cells mature.

An infant’s age could be predicted within 1.3 months based on the maturity of their gut bacteria, study revealed.

 

 

 

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