Article 49W1B A Common Household Ingredient Might Sabotage Your Antibiotics

A Common Household Ingredient Might Sabotage Your Antibiotics

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Ed Cara
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Your daily gob of toothpaste or spritz of body spray might be inadvertently mucking up your antibiotic treatment, suggests new research. It found that a common household antimicrobial ingredient-triclosan-seemed to reduce the potency of antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections by a hundred-fold, at least in"

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