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Antibiotics cured my IBD. Had problems for years. A brief course of amoxicillin and some other, now forgotten, antibiotic (taken for unrelated reasons,) ended it almost immediately. It was amazing.

What wasn't so good was catching C. diff. soon after, almost certainly because of the aforementioned antibiotics.

Another treatment of yet another antibiotic dealt with that.

Net result; no IBD.

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Related: Antibiotics cured, for about a year, my severe gluten and corn intolerance. Then the gluten intolerance ame back. Ive gone through a few rounds of eliminating the gluten issues in this fashion, but the symptoms always return 10-16 months later.

Can you describe what you mean by your intolerances here? I'm having a similar issue that developed after taking antibiotics and I'm curious if yours is similar.

You may have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth [1].

If you can't digest certain types of food, the bacteria which feed on this food grow out of proportion to their place in the microbiome. You'd often notice symptoms an hour or more after eating the food in question, which would give time for the food to hit the small intestine almost entirely undigested.

Taking antibiotics would kill off the overgrowth, but it would grow back over time unless you cut out the food or took supplementary digestive enzymes along with the food.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestinal_bacterial_o...

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