"Intestinal stress" and antibiotics.

Nutrition Health Review | March 22, 1994 | Copyright

Normally, the intestinal tract is teeming with many forms of bacteria that keep the bowel healthy. (A wonderful fact of life is that particular bacteria are benevolent while they inhabit a specific area of the body; let loose in other parts of the body, they can become dangerous.) Antibiotic therapy can destroy the bowel's natural flora, the bacterial populations that guard and keep the intestinal tract functioning normally.

The villain is a bacterial strain identified as Clostridium difficile, which abides in the bowel under control (all bacteria work together ...

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