Zusammenfassung der Ressource
C-diff
- Passed in Feces &
Spreads through
food
- Increasing studies
show C-diff in
younger
individuals
- Antibiotic
Therapy Destroy
normal Gut flora
- Toxins Kill Lining of the Intestine
- Interventions
- Stop Antibiotic
That Caused
infection as soon
as possible
- Metronidazole
&
Vancomycin
(Severe
Cases)
- Fidoxamicin $$
- Severe Cases (Surgery)
- FMT & Probiotics
- Handwashing,
Contact
Precautions,
Disinfect Surfaces
with Bleach
- Increase
Complex
starches to
Decrease
Diarrhea
- Monitor
Fluid &
Electrolytes
- Signs & Symptoms
- Mild to Moderate
- Watery Diarrhea
(3 or more times
daily for 2 or
more days)
- Abdominal
Cramping
Tenderness
- Severe
- Watery
Diarrhea 10-15x
a day
- Abdominal Cramping Severe
- Naseau
- Fever (WBC)
- Blood/Pus in stool
- Dehydration
- Loss of appetite
- Weight Loss
- Swollen Abdomen
- Kidney failure
- Diagnostics
- Stool Specimen
- Enzyme Immunoassay
- Cell toxicity assay
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sigmoidoscopy/Colonoscopy
- Abdominal Xray & CT scan
- Complications
- Dehydration
- kidney failure
- Toxic Megacolon
- Bowel Preforation