http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/05/antibiotics-kill-probiotics-heal/ A blog from inside the emergency department Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:17:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/05/antibiotics-kill-probiotics-heal/#comment-89742 Michael Wed, 23 May 2012 00:11:23 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=8122#comment-89742 Best source for this issue will be the Institute for Functional Medicine.

]]> http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/05/antibiotics-kill-probiotics-heal/#comment-89618 Christine Sun, 20 May 2012 17:53:02 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=8122#comment-89618 Correlation does not imply causation. Perhaps the people prescribed Zithromax or Levaquin were sicker? Also, did they study only enroll adults? Amoxicillin is used very commonly in children, which I would think would pull the numbers down there. Further, did it only include acute courses? I’ve seen Zithromax and Levaquin used as prophylaxis in both BMT and CF patients, both of whom are at higher risk of dying them the general population. I’ve never seen amox or cipro used for that purpose.

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