[ConservativeMind]

Antibiotics both hurt our gut bacteria, leading to imbalances, but also directly hurts gut mucus cells, on their own.

It’s like a double-whammy getting rid of protective gut mucus.

I can say I had a week long course of antibiotics late last year, and I had ongoing gut pains until just a couple months ago. Probiotics weren’t enough. Lots of soluble fiber and adding in manganese with taurine seemed to finally fix everything up. I recently posted a study that found manganese helps with this very problem, but I started taking it for a completely different reason.

[ConservativeMind]

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[mass55th]

Possible stomach issues have always been a known side effect of antibiotics.

[Secret Agent Man]

Its not just that, it wipes out good bacteria as well.

You need to take probiotics when you take antibiotics, and then take them afterwards, to replenish good bacteria, preferably enteric coated capsules so they can survive the stomach and colonize in the intestines.

They knew this way back. They used to prescribe probiotics with people on antibiotics.

[logi_cal869]

I wonder how much taxpayer $$ was wasted on this study.

[metmom]

So, any suggestions on how to restore that lining or gut health?

[telescope115]

I learned a long time ago antibiotics were bad for my colitis. I had c.diff on two different occasions. I was hospitalized once. That time my GI doc had me do a course of vancomycin to knock it out. My PCP prescribed them for the Sarcoidosis flair I was experiencing in my lungs, and then once again when I went to an Immediate Care Clinic for a bad head cold. I TOLD that guy I had problems with antibiotics- he prescribed a Z-pack anyway. I forget what my GI doc gave me that time.

I hate Immediate Care Clinics, and I hate c.diff infections.