Health Check: should you take probiotics when you’re on antibiotics?
- Written by Lito Papanicolas, Infectious diseases specialist and PhD candidate, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
We still don't know what types of bacteria are truly beneficial.Andry Jeymsss/Shutterstock
If you take antibiotics, there’s a good chance you’ll also get diarrhoea.
Antibiotics kill harmful bacteria that cause disease. But they also cause collateral damage to the microbiome, the complex community of bacteria that live in our gut. This...
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