Suggest Treatment For Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection

Posted on Tue, 15 Sep 2015

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Question : My wife has C.DIFF for about four months. She is been treated with VANCOMYCIN for that long. She gets
bounced in and out the hospital as it always comes back. Is there nothing else like NEXABIOTIC or sometning like #62 Perisept to make stop the overgrowth of bacterien ?
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Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Recurrent C diff

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

The fact that she was treated with Vancomycin suggests that she might have had a very severe C diff infection.
The only other well known treatment for C diff is using oral metronidazole 3-4 times a day orally for 10 days. It is relatively safer than Vancomycin but for the feeling of nausea and metallic taste in the mouth.

Probiotics can be used and are recommended. I recommend newer generation pro biotics like Tab VSL-3 once a day for 1 month. It will replenish all the bad bacteria with good ones and these tablets have several billlions of good bacteria in each capsule.

The other well known and tested method for countering C diff is Fecal microbia transplant, here a selected donor's feces is tested, processed and delivered through colonoscopy, it has been tried on patients with fair success.

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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