"RESULTS Oral antibiotic treatment disrupts the colonic mucus barrier"
Intraveinous administration may or may not cause the same effect, or a similar effect. Maybe oral antibiotics is generally a bad idea because it disrupts the microbiome, but in other forms it's generally fine.
That's why you're told to take yogurt/other fermented foods after taking antibiotics, to provide a reproductive environment for them to grow.
However it's still a risk you could kill off a whole species and lose their function, so probably best not to take antibiotics unless you really have to.
It's an easy analysis process though, you try to recover for a couple days, if you cannot and no virus is detected, you take antibiotics.
If it's a bacterial infection and it's spreading you have to take antibiotics, otherwise you die and all of your microbes die with you.
There's only a few total comments in this thread overall, I counted 2 anecdotes, not exactly a scientific consensus.
And people are more likely to comment when something goes bad than when something goes good *checks product feedback*
It caused a gut condition that involved nausea, insomnia, and made it difficult to concentrate.
It was also causing me psychologically to feel as if the rug had been pulled out from under me - I didn't know what I was doing anymore.
Limiting antibiotics with livestock to only sick animals would require allowing them to live in decent conditions which would make everyone healthier.
We need antibiotics. I don't want to go back into the world my parents lived in before they existed, I'd prefer to be in the world I was born into when they still had significant effect without wildcat over-use.
Would phage therapy avoid the problem?