Babies Who Receive Antibiotics During Their First Six Months Appear Not To Gain Excess Weight By Age Seven, Study Finds

reports that babies “who receive antibiotics during the first six months of life don’t seem to gain excess weight by the time they reach the age of seven,” a study published March 22/29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests. Researchers arrived at that conclusion after examining “data on nearly 40,000 children in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” Approximately “14 percent” of the kids studied “were given antibiotics in the first six months of life.” http://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/antibiotics-news-30/antibiotics-don-t-boost-baby-s-weight-study-reports-709126.html