Exploring the Negative Affects of Antibiotics
As you probably well know, antibiotics can have several very nasty affects on your body. Frankly, nowadays there is a lot of talk about how antibiotics may actually be harming us more than helping us - especially with the rise of several 'superbugs' that have proven to be resistant to all but the strongest strains of antibiotics.
What you need to know about antibiotics is that it is an indiscriminate killer. Antibiotics kills bacteria, and it does not stop to think about whether or not that bacteria is good or bad. It may surprise you to know, but within your body there are several types of 'good bacteria' that help with a variety of different tasks. When confronted with 'good bacteria', antibiotics kills them anyway, just to be on the safe side.
From the alone, you should begin to see just why antibiotics can wreck havoc within your body. Amongst the biggest problems that it causes is a compromised immune system due to the fact that the 'good bacteria' that your antibiotics killed off have not yet been replaced. Naturally, this makes you susceptible to a lot of different new infections - but the most common of which would have to be a yeast infection.
Generally, a yeast infection occurs due to an overgrowth of yeast that originates in the colon but can make its way to the vagina. All said and done, this is only going to compound your problems, especially if the bacterial vaginosis once again returns in full swing. If and when that happens, you'll find yourself fighting a war on two fronts... so to speak.
If you absolutely must take antibiotics, it is important that you take probiotic (good bacteria!) supplements soon thereafter, so that you replace the good bacteria that you're killing off as quickly as possible. Not doing so could land you in hot soup, and you'll quickly find yourself facing a plethora of problems such as the ones we were just talking about.
In a nutshell, unless you're replenishing the good bacteria that you're losing, you'll find yourself at a much higher risk of suffering from a repeat of the same infection - or even contracting a new one. Either way, both are situations that you should strive to avoid, and the only way to do so is to limit the amount of times that you actually use antibiotics, while also ensuring that you take probiotics if and when you do.
Trying to distinguish between good bacteria, bad bacteria, and neutral bacteria can be a bit foreboding. Still, you really don't need to know the difference. Knowing what you now know will more than suffice!
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