[db1234]

> She blames the antibiotics for altering her children’s gut microbiome and herself for agreeing to the treatment in the first place.

My son had to be administered antibiotics within an hour of being born. He later developed allergies to a wide range of nuts. I don't know if they are related but I always wonder about the connection.

[ramraj07]

Hope you read the article to the end; I’m sure most people would rather have an allergic kid than no kid at all, which is what antibiotics used correctly enable. Of course one should avoid antibiotics for useless reasons and viral infections but I hope that was obvious even before the allergy discussion.

[jjallen]

My son did not have any antibiotics or anything else at his time of birth and still is allergic to four kinds of nuts.

[naasking]

A sharp increase in nut allergies was seen when pregnant women were advised to avoid nuts, just in case. It actually caused more allergies because the fetus wasn't exposed to small amounts and so never learned to not overreact.

[dontlaugh]

I had to have antibiotics as a baby and only developed hay fever recently. Nuts are fine.

I don’t think it’s an obvious correlation.