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They are living, they reproduce. Damaged ones die off. That's why you're told to take yogurt/other fermented foods after taking antibiotics, to provide a repro
by theultdev 2y ago
They are living, they reproduce. Damaged ones die off.
That's why you're told to take yogurt/other fermented foods after taking antibiotics, to provide a reproductive environment for them to grow.
However it's still a risk you could kill off a whole species and lose their function, so probably best not to take antibiotics unless you really have to.
It's an easy analysis process though, you try to recover for a couple days, if you cannot and no virus is detected, you take antibiotics.
If it's a bacterial infection and it's spreading you have to take antibiotics, otherwise you die and all of your microbes die with you.
- jb1991 2y agoThe other comments in this thread about the recovery aren’t as optimistic as you are. It seems there is significant damage and it takes quite a long time to recover, if it does.
- theultdev 2y agoThere's many variables, what kind of antibiotic, their biome before taking the antibiotics, what microbe species were killed and how many were harmed/killed, etc. There's only a few total comments in this thread overall, I counted 2 anecdotes, not exactly a scientific consensus. And people are more likely to comment when something goes bad than when something goes good *checks product feedback*