Antibiotics for children intestinal infections
Modern American study warned of approaching children some types of antibiotics at an early age, exposing them to diseases of the intestinal tract.
The study says that the children of these drugs at a young age and the higher the dose, the higher the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Recall that the previous studies that drew a connection between antibiotics and bowel diseases, but most have been limited, while the current study examined, recently published in the journal Pediatrics, statements by more than a million children under the age of 18 years.
And these children were followed up for two years or more during the period between 1994 and 2009, researchers found that about 64 percent of the children ate certain kinds of antibiotics at least once in their lives, and about 58% of them took antibiotics which target bacteria that do not require oxygen to grow and known as antianaerobic antibiotics.
In the follow-up period showed that approximately 750 children with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. The symptoms of this disease in the continuous suffering from stomach aches, diarrhea, weight loss, and increased risk of these diseases among children who take the antibiotics before the year of age, but less than these risks significantly higher age of the child when taking those drugs.
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