Antibiotics are powerful medications that destroy bacteria, and which serve as lifeguard when an infection caused by dangerous microbes must be overcome.However, recent studies ensure that half of all recipes that recommend the use of antibiotics are wrong.
In addition, research explains that parents use this type of medicines in children on average twice more than it should be used.Regularly people want to solve everything with antibiotics from stomach discomforts to headaches.
The alarming thing about the case is that within the research, links were found between the early use of antibiotics and the increase in chronic diseases.
The study, published in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology, was applied to mice and allowed discovering links between type 1 diabetes and the use of antibiotics.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease diagnosed especially in childhood, has a genetic influence, it is also known that from World War II increased cases, and is increasingly affecting more children."That means there is some strong environmental aspect," explained Dr. Martin Blaser, author of the study and professor of microbiology.
Blaser is sure that the general use of antibiotics is promoting this increase.Therefore, in his new study he treated a group of diabetic mice and separated them into two groups, the first one gave a very low dose, which imitated the amount given to the animals on the farms, and the second one administered a higher, which represented the same amount that children are usually given to treat ear or throat infections.
The researchers found that in the male mice with diabetes, the smaller and the greatest the amount of antibiotics they consumed, "their diabetes progressively accelerated," Blaser said.He also said that this effect did not happen with low doses.
As for female mice, mixed effects were observed, which shows that they need more research."Mice are not the same as human beings, so the results cannot be extrapolated beyond them," said the study manager.
For now, researchers suggest doctors carefully think about whether their young patient really needs an antibiotic treatment before prescribing it."I think we need medical exams more detailed, and that as well as the doctor, parents also understand that antibiotics cannot be used so deliberately."