Exposure To Antibiotics At Early Age Can Cause Allergies in Old Age

Washington DC:- A recent study shows that exposure to antibiotics in early age is associated with an increased risk of developing allergies in later age.

In this new research, search huge databases monitoring and evaluation of the association between consumption of antibiotics during the first two years of life and risk of eczema or hay fever were performed later in life.

A total of 22 studies (including 394,517 patients) to study the risk of eczema and 22 studies (of which 256,609 patients) to study the risk of hay fever, with some of these are the same (12 studies between selected whose 64,638 patients) studies for both conditions.

The increased risk of eczema due to the use of antibiotics early life ranged from 15 percent to 41 percent depending on the type of study analyzed.The use of antibiotics in early life also increased the risk of hay fever later in life by 14 percent to 56 percent depending on the type of study analyzed.
Moreover, the association was stronger if the patients had been treated with two courses in front of a course of antibiotics, both for eczema and hay fever.

The authors suggest that the basic mechanism of this effect is the immunomodulatory effect of antibiotics, and disruption of the microorganisms (microbioma) in the intestine caused by antibiotics that can lead to reduction of immune response.

Ahmadizar, lead author concludes, "early exposure to antibiotics is correlated with an increased risk of both eczema and hay fever later in life."

The research was presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress (ERS) in London.