Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Gastric Acid Suppression and the Microbiome

By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest It has been shown in several studies that gastric acid suppression puts people at risk for several infections, including pneumonia, c difficile, and gastroenteritis. In fact, one of the predisposing conditions to developing disseminated TB infection is post-gastrectomy, presumably because stomach acid inhibits TB dissemination (there are several reports in the literature, mostly case-controlled studies, […]

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