{"id":19877,"date":"2018-10-10T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:34:19","slug":"after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough-two-thirds-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19877","title":{"rendered":"After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough Two-Thirds of the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antibiotics_Enough-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"Antibiotics Enough\" width=\"690\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antibiotics_Enough-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antibiotics_Enough-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antibiotics_Enough-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Antibiotics_Enough.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given that I have heard it takes 2 years to recover from the damage a single course antibiotics does to your intestinal flora, I am not sure which is worse! Given that you would probably be given antibiotics after surgery, maybe it is worth trying the antibiotics without the surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough-two-thirds-of-the-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough-two-thirds-of-the-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I have heard it takes 2 years to recover from the damage a single course antibiotics does to your intestinal flora, I am not sure which is worse! Given that you would probably be given antibiotics after surgery, maybe it is worth trying the antibiotics without the surgery. https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough-two-thirds-of-the-time\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51022,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions\/51022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}