Frequent Antibiotic Use Tied to Inflammatory Bowel Disease
People who receive multiple courses of antibiotics are at higher risk for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — especially if they take these infection-fighting drugs to treat gastrointestinal pathogens.For the study, researchers examined data on 6.1 million people 10 years and older in Denmark, including 5.5 individuals who received at least one course of antibiotics between 2000 and 2018. During the study period almost 53,000 people were newly diagnosed with IBD, including both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.Compared with people who never used antibiotics, those who did were significantly more likely to develop IBD at all age groups in the study.With each additional course of antibiotics, the risk of IBD climbed by at least another 10 percent, impacting all ages and rising more for those over 40, according to research published in…