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Early Exposure to Antibiotics Can Cause Permanent Asthma and Allergies
Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study demonstrates. The study, published in Mucosal Immunology, has provided the strongest evidence so far that the long-observed connection between antibiotic exposure in early childhood and later development of asthma and allergies is causal.
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That's not all it causes. Over our lifetimes,we all get so much of it,it's amazing we have any microbiome at all.