MadSci Network: Immunology
Query:

Subject: Does taking Anti-biotics impede a child's immune system in any way?

Date: Fri Jan 9 15:00:54 2004
Posted by Stephen
Grade level: 10-12 School: Fenton High School
City: Fenton State/Province: Mi Country: usa
Area of science: Immunology
ID: 1073682054.Im
Message:

Two people at work said they don't like to give their kids anti-biotics because 
their want the kids to develop their immune system. By the time you feel sick 
from a bacterial infection,is not your body already fighting the infection thus 
developing an immune responce for the future to that bacteria? Would it not be 
a mute point to the immune system in the case of a virus? It would build an 
immune response to the virus even with the anti-biotics? 


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