C. difficile Infections

This patient education video explains what a C. difficile infection is. It discusses its causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. It also gives tips about how to prevent a C. difficile infection from occurring in the first place.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• C. difficile
• C. diff
• pseudomembranous colitis
• Clostridium Difficile
• colitis
• C. difficile colitis
• C. difficile infection
• inflammatory bowel disease
• nosocomial infection. c diff

[stephanie1w1]

lol difishicile

[watkinss26]

that is NOT how you pronounce C. Difficile!!

[sxyboyteen]

For a few days, drink water and only water. Your body automatically feeds the good bacteria, trying to replenish good bacteria is a scam stay away... Your going to be tired and hungry, about the third day eat salad with any vinegar dressings, small amounts, keep drinking water... NO SUGARS!!! if after the fith day your stomach still hurts seek a specialist and get a colonoscopy done, you want to rule out ulcers/polyps or any complications you may have incured because of bad bacteria... Clean!!!

[simplicityairjesus]

i think if they know you have had major surgery and your placed on a high dose of antibiotics i believe you should repopulate the flora, it is a shame that antibiotics ruin the good flora, i believe that if you get this c diff you should be treated for free because the doctor has given you a surgery and antibiotics, my father is suffering so because of this lack of responisblity, on the hospital and dr.s should have repopuletd his colon with good bacteria so he did not get the colits.

[drgrinch123]

@gerardtravis19 Yea, I'd assume we just sit back and watch the patient fight it on their own?

[gerardtravis19]

did anyone else notice that this video did not tell how it's treated or diagnosed, it just told us that antibiotics do nothing

[StringBolt]

@watkinss26 No, it's not. It is also NOT pronounced as if it is a French word; it is Latin.

[1nav]

lol