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What about having neck and head tics after taking antibiotics? Tics that don’t go away for months. What can be done? Is the cause likely from the cytokines and endotoxins being released? Your article says “studies have clearly shown a link between antibiotics and the release of endotoxins and the effect of endotoxins and cytokines in precipitating an inflammatory response.” So when antibiotics cause an inflammatory response and the response stays there for many months, what can be done?
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