What is the point of taking probiotics and antibiotics at the same time?

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I work at a doctors office and when I’m reading chart notes, I see a lot that someone gets prescribed antibiotics, and the doctors will always write in there to take probiotics at the same time.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to take the probiotic AFTER finishing the antibiotic course? Because I would think that taking them both would be pointless, because the antibiotics would immediately kill the probiotics that you just took… right?

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It does take some of them out yes, the point to taking the prebiotic is to try keeping up somewhat with the rate of death. If you are introducing more as they die off it will take you less time to recover them fully, and you won’t be as depleted as if you did nothing.

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