I have just finished a penicillin treatment for an infection. As far as I understand penicillin kills of all bacteria in the whole body, the good ones too. Now I wonder if there is anything I can do (or eat !) that will help the good bacteria to get going again properly.
What can I do to get the good bacteria back in my body after taking penicillin?
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When people talk about killing ‘good bacteria’, they usually mean the bacteria that lives in your gut. You have to take penicillin or any other antibiotic for a while before it kills off a substantial portion of that bacteria. It mostly works by killing off the bacteria that are in your blood/lymphatics, which are much smaller in number. Give it some time (a few weeks) and they’ll be back to normal.
I think there are things you can take that supposedly contain the good bacteria, which you could take, but it isn’t really worth it.
The "good" bacteria wil reform through natural replication before too long. As mentioned, it shouldn’t kill off all the good ones in your digestive system, so yes, they will just get themselves back in order naturally.