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UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8hap9 wrote

Reply to comment by ChronicWombat in Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis by geoxol

That may be the case, but it doesn't follow that a course of antibiotics, implying reduction in certain species of gut bacteria, would immediately (if at all) reduce levels of the antibodies that cause rheumatoid or other autoimmune diseases.

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UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8heau wrote

Not that her symptoms didn't improve from the antibiotics, I'm just suggesting that this mechanism isn't plausibly why they improved

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