Sentences with phrase «worse by the antibiotics»

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It's all a vicious cycle: use chemicals, create resistant bacteria, get sick, take antibiotics, wipe out the good bacteria, get attacked again by even worse bacteria...

A study by the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C. found that outside sources, such as antibiotics, can kill both bad and good bacteria and lead to abdominal distress.

Family doctors who offer homeopathy - not recommended by the NHS - are also more likely to practice other bad habits such as the overuse of antibiotics

Not only does the spray of good bugs protect the chicks from pathogenic bacteria — in particular Salmonella — simply by occupying the niches where the bad bugs would otherwise lodge, but it discourages antibiotic use.

In essence, if you take all those extra antibiotics, you might be doing the worst bugs» dirty work for them by removing a check on their growth.

And, the field of agriculture has been blamed for making this worse by using concentrated feed operations that leak antibiotics into surrounding waterways.

The good «pro» biotics are wiped out along with the bad, but then a vicious cycle can start: probiotics are essential for immune function, so a gut wiped out by antibiotics can't defend you against bugs like the flu or strep or staph.

«The scientific world has undergone a revolution in the way it understands the gastrointestinal tract, specifically the role played by the bacteria that live there... we've only just recently appreciated that if the microbiota are not being properly attended to — if they're not being fed enough plant fiber or if they're being indiscriminately wiped out by the overuse of antibiotics or they're damaged over time by excessive amounts of stress hormones — a Pandora's Box of bad things gets opened up.

A lack of probiotics, usually caused by taking antibiotics that indiscriminately kill off good and bad bacteria, can lead to inflammation in the bowels, gas, constipation, and generally poor digestion.

I believe by not eating fermented foods and by killing off good bacteria in my body through antibiotic use, I was allowing much worse bacteria to proliferate causing my personal microbiome to get out of balance.

The problem is not only illegal substances like cocaine, heroin and marijuana, but we are solicited constantly by legal substances that pollute the body such as habit forming sleeping pills, excessive antibiotics that destroy not only the bad bacteria, but the healthy bacterial flora and the constant ads for alcohol.

This is made worse by things you consume that damange your gut flora such as chlorinated drinking water, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, and the worst of them all — antibiotics.

Taking antibiotics or medications is by far, the worst thing you can do..

Answer: Usually by the time a dog shows signs of a urinary tract infection, the infection is so bad that they need prescription antibiotics.

There are also instances when good bacteria are also killed together with bad bacteria by the antibiotics that are given to cats.