Mouse Study Suggests Link Between Antibiotic Treatments And Development Of Type 1 Diabetes In Children.

https://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/antibiotics-news-30/repeated-antibiotics-spur-type-1-diabetes-in-mice-714055.html Blaser explained that antibiotics led to a change in the microbiome in the gut -- or intestinal bacteria. Those changes resulted in other changes, including alterations in immune system cells called T-cells. That, in turn, led to increased inflammation in the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas, he said. So, do all of these changes occur in the same way in humans? It's too soon to know for sure, though Blaser said other research suggests that kids with autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, have an altered microbiome.