 
                            Suggest Treatment For Nausea And Diarrhea While On Vancomycin
 
 
                                    
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                                            More likely to be due to cholestyramine. Discussion follows
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for your query.
Cholestyramine is known to produce adverse effects like abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, belching and diarrhoea. It is possible that it may be the cause of your wife's symptoms.
Saccharomyces boulardii is unlikely to cause diarrhea and is often used to suppress the pathogen causing diarrhea. Adverse reaction can occur if your wife is allergic to yeast or has a weak immune system.
As for Vancomycin, it is not the drug in the blood that causes the symptoms but its effect on the gut. It may destroy some of the good bacteria in the gut along with the Clostridium difficile and produce adverse effects.
I would suggest your wife stopping the cholestyramine and see if her symptoms improve.
Do get back to me if you have further queries.
 
  
 Symptoms can last a couple of days.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for the feedback.
The symptoms can persist till the cholestyramine is passed out in the stools. This may take a couple of days and the stools will be devoid of black color.
 
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