Children Taking Antibiotics Have Higher IBD Risk

A new study suggests that antibiotics like penicillin, amoxicillin, tetracyclines, and some others may lead to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children.

The study found that exposure to these drugs - called anti-anaerobic antibiotics - in children is linked to an 84 percent greater chance of developing IBD, according to Med Page Today.  The risk was highest when the drugs were used in the first year of a child’s life.

Inflammatory bowel disease is a set of chronic conditions that can cause stomach pain, diarrhea, and frequent infections.

Med Page Today reports that researchers looked at data on more than a million children from the U.K.’s The Health Improvement Network (THIN) registry. Of all the children who got IBD, most had some exposure to an antibiotic and 58 percent had been exposed to one anti-anaerobic antibiotic.

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