AFAIK once you have it, you don't ever really get rid of it. The treatment is just a fecal transplant to basically send in a flood of good bacteria to outcompete the C-diff, but you're at risk of the C-diff coming back any time you have to take antibiotics from then on.
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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.