Why travelers shouldn't treat 'tourist's diarrhea' with antibiotics

On average, from 20 to 50 percent of all tourists in the world experience such an unpleasant phenomenon as diarrhea in the first week of their stay in a foreign country. Many people prefer the “quick treatment” and immediately buy antibiotics. But this is a bad idea.

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Using antibiotics without a doctor's recommendation is not only undesirable - it can contribute to the development of resistance in bacteria, writes AmericaRu.com.

Overuse of antibiotics makes most bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae family resistant to drugs. As a result, a person becomes a carrier of infection, and primarily in his native country upon returning home.

“The vast majority of all cases of travel diarrhea are mild and self-limiting,” says Dr. Anu Kantele from Helsinki University Hospital in Finland.

Kantele is the lead author of the study, in which experts examined the analyzes of 430 people before and after traveling outside Finland, and compared the results with the medical history of citizens.

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