It is a known fact that antibiotics kill "good" bacteria as well as bad. I
wonder if the loss of the good bacteria somehow influences the onset of
problems.

Don M

At 11:35 AM 99/10/07 -0400, you wrote:
>I've just read an article that suggests that children who received
>antibiotics three or more times during the first year of life had a 400%
>increased risk of developing asthma than a child who received no
>antibiotics.