Giving children antibiotics increases their risk of diabetes – with boys ‘particularly vulnerable’

Giving babies and toddlers antibiotics may dramatically increase their odds of becoming diabetic, doctors fear.

The warning follows a ‘compelling’ study which linked the commonly-prescribed drug with type 1 diabetes, the form that usually develops in childhood.

With antibiotics prescription rates rising, scientists decided to see if the drugs were helping to fuel the increase in type 1 diabetes.

Read more of the original article from DailyMail.

SHARE