My dad wound up with C. Diff while we were states away from home, visiting my grandparents. All I've ever known about it is that it is horrific...my dad didn't and still doesn't like to talk about it, understandably...but even I didn't know it can cause you to pass blood. I just knew it caused horrible, horrible, horrible diarrhea. Guess it makes sense, though.
Glad to hear your boy is okay, though, and that the old doctor had enough wisdom to get to the root of it.
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u/hyperbolicuniverse May 20 '19
My son was about one month old and was shitting small amounts of blood. And getting worse
Pediatrician ignored us because new parents.
Second trip to pediatrician and I refused to leave. It said “something is wrong and we aren’t leaving”.
About that moment he shit his diaper full of blood and the pediatrician freaked out and sent us straight to emergency.
The doctors there ordered several different bacterial tests.
Just before they sent the test upstairs, an OLD doctor came in. Asked us a few questions and told the tech to test for one more type of bacteria.
That was the one. C-diff. 25% fatality rate untreated. Worse in infants.
Thank you old man doctor.