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Posted 3/3/2018 11:07 PM (GMT 0)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-antibiotic-crohns/antibiotic-use-tied-to-crohns-ulcerative-colitis-idUSTRE78P4Z320110926

source https://www.nature.com/articles/ajg2011304

“It’s not that antibiotics cause inflammatory bowel disease, but that it further supports the hypothesis that changing the gut flora may be disadvantageous,” co-author Dr. Charles N. Bernstein, who studies bowel disorders at the University of Manitoba, told Reuters Health.
Posted 3/4/2018 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
I was 46 when I took 2 sets of antibiotics and I was diagnosed with ulceris colitis a month after that I never had any symptons before that it was about 4 years ago I remember telling the doctor about the antibiotics and he told me you usally get ulceris colitis when your young I have no family history
Posted 3/4/2018 6:39 AM (GMT 0)
I have no family history either but I got IBD before ever trying any antibiotics, antibiotics definitely made symptoms worse though.
Posted 3/4/2018 7:47 AM (GMT 0)
No family history either. I had IBS-C since I was a teen, so I did have hemmies that bled a drop or two sometimes. But then I had pancreatitis (unknown cause) in late 2014, and diagnostic testing also showed h pylori, so I got some hardcore antibiotics, which also caused gastritis. Within 6 months I started noticing worse bowel issues -- longer constipation, tenesmus, then I'd have these two week periods where I'd be super constipated and only pass small pieces of stool covered in blood and mucus, and then I'd have diarrhea for 2-3 days. Every time I'd finally be like, "Okay, gotta go to the doctor, this is maybe not hemmies" it would go away for a few months, so I would just decide it was hemmies/diet. Turns out this was mild UC for about 2 years. I truly believe that while I am genetically predisposed (I have two other conditions that they now think are autoimmune and one involves inflammation), it was those antibiotics that pulled the trigger.
Posted 3/4/2018 10:40 PM (GMT 0)
My UC happened 6 months after a course of antibiotics. I think antibiotics also include the stuff that's in our food, like in the meat, or the pesticides they spray on veggies that kill our gut flora.

I bet UC is a glut flora disease.
Posted 3/5/2018 3:01 AM (GMT 0)
/www.reuters.com/article/us-antibiotic-crohns/antibiotic-use-tied-to-crohns-ulcerative-colitis-idUSTRE78P4Z320110926

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Posted 3/30/2018 6:20 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you for sharing! Since getting UC last year and of course doing lots of reading, I've suspected gut infections and/or the antibiotic treatment as something that contributed to the onset of my disease. I have no family history and was otherwise very healthy other than a couple of cases of Traveler's Diarrhea in the couple years prior.
Posted 3/30/2018 9:13 PM (GMT 0)
Seems suspectful.
Posted 3/30/2018 10:10 PM (GMT 0)
I was diagnosed with UC at 30 years old and my last antibiotic usage was at 16 years old. No causation here...
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