Just thought I'd share this bit of news I heard today
Recently one of mom's health care providers mentioned their parent had been in the hospital three times over the summer with a c-diff infection they believed was being spread through a NH population
Another individual mentioned their parent had recently had an experimental bacteria transplant and it had worked in clearing the c-diff infection
I decided to look up the procedure and was amazed at what it involved but it seems to be effective although not yet gov't approved - it's an easy search online so I won't go into more detail but thought it might be of interest to some
The c-dif bacteria does seem to get traded around nursing homes environments. My grandmother picked up her case right away, as soon as she was put in an AL room.
The current modern medical treatment for c-dif is so harsh on a body. A lot of elders, imo, wouldn't recover from a bout of c-dif and the bags and bags of IV antibiotics. What's a little more poop really matter when they're already sick with diarrhea every day...? Gross? Definitely. But if it helps... because the IV antis really don't help, that's why the treatment is recurrent, lengthy, and people get so worn down by c-dif. If there's a better way, why aren't we doing it?? I'm sure modern medicine could come up with some fancy instruments to make it all much more sterile procedure.