Too many antibiotics could spoil your gut - Family News & Advice | Parenting, Marriage & Kids | The Irish Tim - Mon, May 26, 2014

Too many antibiotics could spoil your gut - Family News & Advice | Parenting, Marriage & Kids | The Irish Tim - Mon, May 26, 2014: "A leading gastroenterologist warns that the use of antibiotics to treat digestive health problems is a major public health issue. Prof Eamonn Quigley, who is a principal investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) at University College Cork (UCC), the head of gastroenterology at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, and a former president of the World Gastroenterology Organisation, says the pendulum has swung too far in terms of the propensity to turn to antibiotics to treat ailments.
Speaking to The Irish Times in advance of Thursday’s World Digestive Health Day, he says, “If you look back over the past 100 years or so, we have gone from a phase of having nothing to combat infection to having a vast selection of antibiotics available to us to treat all sorts of infections.
“That was obviously great progress from a medical point of view, but the problem that has arisen now is that antibiotics have become overused."



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