Antibiotics have already been criticized many times as a pharmacological agent in the fight against infectious diseases for the side effects they have on patients. And here the American researchers again give reasons for refusing to use them, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net According to American doctors from New York University, taking antibiotics provokes the risk of kidney stones in patients. In the course of the study, the side effects of antibiotics on the intestinal microflora. As a result of the experiment it was revealed that antibiotics with their antibacterial action significantly reduce the number of bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes, and this negative effect persists for 6 months.

Bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes in the human body are involved in the metabolism of oxalates.

They control the level of these products in the blood of a person and do not allow the walls of the intestines to suck in the oxalates that enter the body together with the food intake. As a result of this control, oxalate concentrations in the blood do not occur and these surpluses do not turn into stones.

The destruction of colonies of bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes leads to an increase in the level of oxalates, the surplus of which is deposited in the kidneys in the form of stones.

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