Antibiotics and food allergies

[Dale Moss]

Thought this item from Dr. Al Sears's newsletter might be of interest:
"It’s right on the front page of Family Practice News, a publication of the AMA [American Medical Association]. I look at it every month to keep up on what standard doctors are being given as news.

The first story is an unpublished study where doctors discovered that giving children antibiotics early in their lives can cause food allergies.

Antibiotics ... which most people think of as a godsend, and as safe ... are causing allergies.

Who knew?

Of course, there was no way to know. Antibiotic drugs never existed in the entire course of human history until very recently. And now we’re seeing the effects.

The risk of food allergies gets greater the more courses of antibiotics a child gets. And children are twice as likely to develop food allergies if they get antibiotics before 6 months old, compared to children even as close to that as 7-12 months old.

The case study of 7,538 children was presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. It also found that kids were more than twice as likely to develop food allergies if they got three or more course of antibiotics."

Peace,

Dale