Clostridium difficile infection -"c-diff" - "c-difficile"
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:44 pm
Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection
By Mayo Clinic staff
Administration of two 500 mg doses per day of S. boulardii (a friendly yeast-based probiotic) when given with one of two antibiotics (vancomycin or metronidazole) was found to significantly reduce the rate of recurrent Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous colitis) infection. No significant benefit was found for prevention of an initial episode of Clostridium difficile-associated disease.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_boulardii
http://www.probiotic.org/saccharomyces-bouldarii.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/105956.php
I would like to add that FLORASTOR brand of Saccharomyces_boulardii works to help cure this problem.
I was in the hospital for an episode of extremely high blood pressure.
They gave me massive antibiotics because they presumed I had a lung infection. I got c-difficile which caused mirsa infections. Which was treated with more antibiotics which caused c-diff again. I went through about 5 cycles of this. This resulted in me being the hospital for about 60 days.
I was operated on twice for Mirsa boils. I almost died from severe blood loss when they gave me some blood thining medications by mistake. It is a real fright to wake up in a pool/lake of your own blood!
It was only when I got home (still with C-diff & Mirsa infections that returned after 3 days home) that I found on the Internet that I could cure myself with some FLORASTOR and milder antiobiotics.
jackD
By Mayo Clinic staff
"Clostridium difficile (klos-TRID-e-uhm dif-uh-SEEL), often called C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon. Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications.
In recent years, C. difficile infections have become more frequent, more severe and more difficult to treat. Each year, tens of thousands of people in the United States get sick from C. difficile, including some otherwise healthy people who aren't hospitalized or taking antibiotics."
Administration of two 500 mg doses per day of S. boulardii (a friendly yeast-based probiotic) when given with one of two antibiotics (vancomycin or metronidazole) was found to significantly reduce the rate of recurrent Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous colitis) infection. No significant benefit was found for prevention of an initial episode of Clostridium difficile-associated disease.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_boulardii
http://www.probiotic.org/saccharomyces-bouldarii.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/105956.php
I would like to add that FLORASTOR brand of Saccharomyces_boulardii works to help cure this problem.
I was in the hospital for an episode of extremely high blood pressure.
They gave me massive antibiotics because they presumed I had a lung infection. I got c-difficile which caused mirsa infections. Which was treated with more antibiotics which caused c-diff again. I went through about 5 cycles of this. This resulted in me being the hospital for about 60 days.
I was operated on twice for Mirsa boils. I almost died from severe blood loss when they gave me some blood thining medications by mistake. It is a real fright to wake up in a pool/lake of your own blood!
It was only when I got home (still with C-diff & Mirsa infections that returned after 3 days home) that I found on the Internet that I could cure myself with some FLORASTOR and milder antiobiotics.
jackD