By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Maternal use of antibiotics in pregnancy may increase the risk for inflammatory bowel disease in the offspring, according to a new study (Nat Microbiol 2017 Nov. 27 [published online]. doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0075-5).
As rates of children’s exposure to antibiotic use have increased in recent decades, the incidence of autoimmune conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) also have increased, according to researchers from New York University School of