Thread: Antibiotics causing yeast infection??

Antibiotics are not concerned with killing exact types of bacteria, they kill a broad range that fall into certain categories. Our bodies contain 'good' bacteria which fall into the broad category that some antibiotics kill so your normal 'good' bacteria will be wiped out for a short period of time leaving an opportunity for 'bad' bacteria to make you their new home and hence infections. The antibiotics must not be stopped if you have a legitimate reason for taking them like strep throat or tonsillitis and so forth, those bacteria must go you cannot stop the prescription you must finish the prescription otherwise the leftover non-killed strep throat bacteria will mutate and become resistant to any other course of antibiotics. That said your 'good' bacteria count will be down during the time you take the antibiotics for the legitimate infection, the thing is that people overlook is that normal flora (another term for good bacteria) regenerates in less time than it takes to kill bad bacteria. The good bacteria are never ever completely wiped out, they are merely minimized in numbers. Some people are recolonized by good bacteria so quickly that zero symptoms are felt of say a yeast infection. Other people may not have 'good' bacteria come back as fast (it is still very fast though) and they may become susceptible to a yeast infection.