Nevermind MRSA, looks like antibiotics may do more direct damage:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7361/full/476393a.html
The average child in the United States and other developed countries has received 10–20 courses of antibiotics by the time he or she is 18 years old. In many respects, this is a life-saving development. The average US citizen born in 1940 was expected to live to the age of 63; a baby born today should reach 78, in part because of antibiotics. But the assumption that antibiotics are generally safe has fostered overuse and led to an increase in bacterial resistance to treatments.Other, equally serious, long-term consequences of our love of antibiotics have received far less attention. Antibiotics kill the bacteria we do want, as well as those we don't. Early evidence from my lab and others hints that, sometimes, our friendly flora never fully recover. These long-term changes to the beneficial bacteria within people's bodies may even increase our susceptibility to infections and disease. Overuse of antibiotics could be fuelling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations (see graph).
