Picking up her sixth prescription of antibiotics for a (UTI) in ten months, Kate Elgood was at her wit’s end.She’d been caught in a seemingly endless cycle of UTIs, being treated with antibiotics and then experiencing unpleasant bouts of thrush due to the antibiotics. That’s because, as well as wiping out harmful bacteria, antibiotics kill off the good bacteria in the vagina — these help maintain a slightly acidic environment, keeping microbes such as the candida fungus, which causes thrush, in check.Most of us are by now familiar with the gut microbiome, the community of bacteria, fungi and viruses that are linked to the health of our digestive system, and beyond.
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