Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to by nutritional weight and wellness.

My name is Leah Kleintrod. I am a registered and licensed dietitian and your host for the show today.

On today's show, I will be answering a question submitted by one of our Dishing Up Nutrition

listeners. And it's a question I get asked semi-regularly when I'm counseling clients. And this question

is, how can I repair my gut after taking a round of antibiotics?

So this question actually comes at a good time.

I personally just finished up with a round of antibiotics for a nasty little sinus infection I had.

Most of us need antibiotics at one time or another to combat a bacterial infection.

So sinus infections are pretty common.

Nomania or bronchitis, those are common.

Strep throat, ear infections, especially in little kids, UTIs, line disease,

or if you get some kind of cut or scrape or a wound that ends up getting infected,

these are some

reasons why we might need antibiotics at some point. We also might need an antibiotic during or after

a surgery that we're having. Maybe we're getting some dental work done and we've got a little

bit of a higher risk for infection there. So the dentist recommends

or requires an antibiotic to be taken beforehand or some people end up on antibiotics to combat

acne. So again, lots of different scenarios where we could need some antibiotics. And most of us

have used an antibiotic at one point in our lives or another. And thank goodness

for antibiotics when we need them, they can absolutely be life-saving. But the story doesn't stop

after you take that last pill in the bottle or that last pill in the packet. Nowadays, there is a lot

more awareness about the effects antibiotics have overall

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