Are Antibiotics Damaging Your Gut? What Happens After a Course of Antibiotics

A middle-aged Indian man sits at a dining table in an upper-middle-class home, looking thoughtfully at an antibiotic blister pack with two tablets missing. A glass of water, a handwritten prescription slip, and a bowl of plain curd sit on the table beside him, while a modern kitchen is softly blurred in the background.

Every Antibiotic You Take Leaves a Mark on Your Gut Think about the last time you took antibiotics. A throat infection, perhaps. A stubborn UTI. Maybe a chest infection that wouldn’t quit. Your doctor prescribed a course, you finished it, the infection cleared, and you moved on. But your gut did not. Inside your intestines, […]