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Medicine question. can oral vancomycin for cdiff cause kidney stuff like kidney stones or headaches or ear pain? i am on fourth round of it for cdiff

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Dr. Silviu Pasniciuc answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Not absorbed: Oral Vancomycin is not absorbed from the Gi tract, therefore should not cause significant side effects involving other organs. Diarrhea, the main symptom in C diff colitis, will predispose to kidney stones by depriving the kidneys from filtering volume.

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Answered 8/27/2015

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