My grandmother is 91 years old and has c-diff she has had this for several months and has now been put back into the hospital 4th time. She continiously has diaahera,throwing up and has loss lots of weight. help!
2007-01-21 19:10:58 · 6 answers · asked by nicolette s 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Clostridium Difficile is treated with antibiotics - usually oral antibiotics:
Oral Metronidazole 250mg 4X/day
Or
Oral Vancomycin 125mg 4X/day
In addition to the antibiotic therapy, your grandmother would need additional fluids due to fluid loss from diarrhoea. I would also consider giving her an antiemetic medicine to stop her from vomiting.
Perhaps your family doctor would be the best person to sort all of this out, but if she is in hospital I hope they have got all of this under control.
2007-01-21 19:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Antibiotics for sure, most of the time Vancomycin, or if it is resistant metrodinazole.
Following antibiotic treatment, it might be a good idea to supplement her with a good quality probiotic formula to help her build back her intestinal flora. This treatment is standard in some hospitals, and ignored in others, but it does wonders for diarrhea patients, especially if they got it after antibiotics treatment.
Quality probiotics can be found in natural food stores, and must be kept in the fridge.
2007-01-22 03:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a second opinion. when people get that old they apperenly dont have the immune system they had before. also make sure all the clothes and the infected area that she has been laying on or been around are disenfected almost daily. there is something they can do too. i used to work in a nursing home and people got it and got rid of it. if she's in a nursing home apperently the STNA's and Nurses arent doing there job. report em'
2007-01-21 19:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by itsmejea2005 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
%. some lemons and ginger appropriate right into a field and fill it with honey. enable it sit down in one day, then scoop out between the most honey and pour sizzling water over it to make a tea. also take a check out a neti pot and gargling with salt water.
2016-10-15 22:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by vesely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With an antibotic called flagyl.
2007-01-21 19:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by elizabeth v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this can also be treated with vancomycin capsules and good handwashing.
2007-01-21 19:22:32 · answer #6 · answered by we-well 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋