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With increasing rates of cesarean section worldwide and international guidelines advising pre-incision antibiotics, neonatal exposure to pre-birth antibiotics is higher than ever before. Emerging evidence has raised concern regarding the… Click to show full abstract
With increasing rates of cesarean section worldwide and international guidelines advising pre-incision antibiotics, neonatal exposure to pre-birth antibiotics is higher than ever before. Emerging evidence has raised concern regarding the impact of such antibiotics on the neonatal intestinal microbiota, immune system development and health conditions later in life. This narrative review investigates current protocols for intrapartum prophylactic antibiotics in cesarean section, how this and other factors may affect the neonatal intestinal microbiota and whether intrapartum antibiotics used for cesarean section are linked to the development of allergic disease.
Journal Title: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Year Published: 2023
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