A more diverse diet in babies moving to solid foods gives them more diverse gut bacteria – but is this necessarily a good thing?
Antibiotics administered during labour for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) affect the development of gut bacteria in babies, according to a study from McMaster University.
The bacteria in a child’s gut appears to be influenced as early as its first year by ethnicity and breastfeeding, according to a new study from McMaster University.