Same here, but could never recover from bacterial infections (mostly lung/sinuses) without them.
So we might have an underlying immunity issue leading to increased abx need.
I suspect allergies monopolize my immune resources ==> what comes first, the chicken or the egg?
I also needed many courses of antibiotics to get rid of my infections. I was never told how detrimental they could be to my health though because the doctors were never taught this.
I think allergies can come first but in many cases or most, it's antibiotics that are causing dysbiois and increased intestinal permeability, which often leads to allergies and a weaken immunity from the translocation of bacterial toxins into the bloodstream.
Many people get at least a few courses of antibiotics in the first 5 years of their lives. Leading to dysbiosis rate from the start.
Doctors should be educating their patients on how many health consequences are tied to dysbiosis from antibiotics. They should also inform their patients to take prebiotics and probiotics to help re-balance their microbiota from antibiotics that have to be taken.
I think the effect of antibiotic usage is cumulative and is passed from generation to generation. A baby gets is initial inoculation for it's microbiota (gut bacteria) from the mothers birth canal during delivery.
Each generation of mothers have more and more dysbiosis being passed on to the children because of the use and over-prescribing of anti-biotics without being told by their doctors how many health problems are connected to dysbiosis.
Then the children get more antibiotics, very often when they are babies for different things. Which often gives them a very poor start to good health.
This graph below shows a
dramatic increase in immune system disorders since the 1950's.
The first antibiotics became widely available in the 1940's. I think there is a direct connection between the increase in immune system disorders and antibiotic use.
As the graph shows, there is a dramatic rise in Multiple Sclerosis, Asthma, Type 1 Diabetes, Crohn's disease and I'm sure others as well that are not shown.
Had I known about herbs like Echinacea, Astragalus, Reishi etc, when I kept getting bacterial infections, I'm confident I would not have needed most of the antibiotics I had to take.
My son never needed 1 course of antibiotics for the 6 years I had sole custody of him. I think the main reason for that is that every time he got sick I gave him high enough doses of immune boosting herbs.
The herbs kept his immune system high enough that he didn't develop secondary bacterial infections from colds or flus and therefore didn't need antibiotics.
I think dysbiosis and increased intestinal permeability (leak gut), because of it's detrimental effects on the immune system and it's involvement in so many different diseases, is going to be one the biggest areas of research in the coming years.
