what causes cdif?
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Clostridium difficile is a common bacteria that is often part of the normal flora of the gastro intestinal tract. It is kept from causing an infection by being crowded out by all the other flora there. However, often when someone takes antibiotics the C. diff is resistant to the antibiotic but the other flora die, leaving enough room for the C. diff to cause a diarrhea inducing infection. It will go away either by stopping the original antibiotic or by adding Vancomycin or Metronidazole to it.
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c diff is an overinfection of the bacteria clostridium difficile, it usually happens after you took an antibiotic and killed the natural bacteria in your colon and that allows this bacteria(that is resistant to almost all antibiotics) to grow unchecked, it secretes a toxin that causes you to shed the inner layers of your colon and causes bloody diarrhea among other problems, it must be treated with either metronidazole or vancomycin and is hard to kill
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