I’ve always said that everything is connected, and that couldn’t be more true when considering probiotics. Think of it – throughout the environment there are symbiotic relationships where different organisms co-exist to each other’s benefits. We ourselves are teeming with bacteria, in and outside of us, and for the most part, we get along just…
Tag: c difficile
Let’s talk poop; fecal microbiota transplants
I was rockhounding in the high desert of Eastern Oregon when I go the call: get your husband tested. I was on my third long taper of vancomycin and it wasn’t working; c diff showed no signs of abating. I felt constantly miserable. My surgeons were worried about my continued recurrences of infection and were…
C diff and that “oh-oh” moment
Oh-oh. That moment of urgency hits. You have diarrhea. And you just finished taking antibiotics for your (insert condition here). Are you in trouble? Next comes the search for the cause. Was it something you ate? What the heck is going on? What things cause diarrhea? The differential list of causes in long and includes…