This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We are in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 418 for November 15th, 2018.

We're calling this one antibiotic awareness.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So you've heard of antibiotics, right? I mean, probably every person in this audience at one point or another has been on an

antibiotic or your kids have been on an antibiotic. If you've never been on one, you are fortunate.

So we want to raise awareness about antibiotics. Why would we want to do that?

Because antibiotics are great except for when they're not. And there are plenty of reasons why

antibiotics would not be so great. One of those reasons is because the antibiotic kills

bad bacteria.

And, you know, bacteria are not inherently good or bad.

I mean, they have an effect on our bodies.

And sometimes that effect is a helpful, beneficial, symbiotic effect.

You know, we actually, there's some numbers that you've probably heard that we actually have more bacteria inside our gut than we have cells that make up our body. So if you want to think of it that way, we're

actually more bacteria than human. That's wonderful to think about. But all of those bacteria

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