Young Children Who Take Antibiotics May Be More Likely To Develop Prediabetes As Teens, Study Suggests.

, “Young children who take antibiotics are more likely to develop prediabetes as adolescents, likely due to a decrease of beneficial microbiota in the gut,” the findings of a 24-participant study suggest. The study revealed that “the prediabetes group...had fewer colony-forming units of Ruminococcus species per gram of stool” than the children without prediabetes. The study authors “said the lack of Ruminococcus-degrading species in the prediabetes group ‘seems to herald the onset of glucose intolerance via a decrease of beneficial microbiota populations and consequent alterations in regional immunity http://www.healio.com/endocrinology/pediatric-endocrinology/news/online/%7B7497a043-a9dd-4c52-85a5-de9bfe674a96%7D/early-childhood-antibiotics-increase-risk-for-prediabetes-in-adolescence