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Are there home remedies for clostridium (c diff) infection?
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NO: Do not try to treat this at home with "home remedies". This is a bad illness which can result in profound damages if not appropriately treated and eradicated.
Answered 5/19/2013
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C.difficile needs Rx: C.Difficile is pathogenic in older children & adults (whose colonic microflora are altered by antibiotics, chemotherapy, salmonella/shigella). C.Diff causes pseudomembranous & other colitis, complicates inflammatory bowel disease, causes fulminant transmural extension, perforation with peritonitis, toxic megacolon. Florastor is otc probiotic that may help suppress c.Diff, but seriously get treated.
Answered 6/23/2020
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