what is the hospital bug cdif?

Answer 1

Clostridium difficile infectious diarrhea occurs secondary to a toxin produced by this bacterium. Acquisition of C. difficile occurs most frequently in elderly persons in hospitals or nursing homes, potentially due to environmental contamination with C. difficile and carriage of the spores on the hands of hospital personnel. Patients often develop diarrhea after antibiotic therapy. Most antibiotics have been implicated in the development of C. difficile infection. Other risk factors include: recent surgery, intensive care, nasogastric intubation and length of hospital stay. The typical clinical picture in C. difficile infection is nonbloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever. In severely ill patients low blood pressure, dilated colon (toxic megacolon) and colon perforation can occur. Treatment includes discontinuing the offending drug if possible and oral antibiotics such as metronidazole or vancomycin.

Answer 2

We all carry many types of organisms within our bodies and the thing that keeps them in check is often that there are so many. Imagine it something like a forest. Many trees grow, many plants grow. One plant cannot take over the whole forest because there are so many fighting for a place to live and taking up some of the area for themselves.
The same kind of thing happens with "bugs" in the body. Many people have clostridium difficile living in their intestinal tract. This particular germ is found in soil, water, and household pets. Unfortunately when a person gets sick they need antibiotics. The antibiotics often kill off the other germs living in the intestine and this allows c-difficile to take over the entire area. It causes inflammation (colitis) and can lead to severe diarrhea, sometimes bloody; and can also lead to a person becoming septic. Special antibiotics that target this particular germ must be given and depending on age and illness the patient may or may not be able to get rid of it.
It can also be carried on the hands of health care workers , equipment being used first on one patient and then on another. Its a particularly strong germ and people can be very very sick with it. Some die.
The best way to prevent getting this type of bug is to be careful about hand washing and food handling. Unfortunately patients in the hospital must depend upon the staff to contain the problem as they are not well enough to protect themselves.

Answer 3

Its a bacteria called Clostridium difficile, which normally lives harmlessly in some peoples guts. If you have certain types of antibiotics it increases the risk of this bacteria overgrowing in your gut and causing severe diarrhoea - this mainly happens in elderly people. Once it is causing problems, it can also be transmitted to other people, which happens quite frequently within hospitals.
There are a number of new and more severe strains around at the moment which are in the news - these seem to be cause a higher number of deaths than normal.

Answer 4

This is clostridium difficile. It causes bowel infection that can Rance from mild diarrhoea to, in the weaker patient, death! It tends to occur in patients treated with potent antibiotics. It can then spread to other patients. This of course is another reason for only giving antibiotics when they are really needed.

Answer 5

I'm not too GOOD, when it comes to the SPELLING, of this, but, the abbreviation "C.DIF", actually, stands for "CLOSTRIDIUM DIFICILE" - pronounced as "DIFFI-SEEL"! Hope this has helped!

Answer 6

infectios diahrrea

highly contages

Answer 7

contagious green non-stop [it seems like it anway] diarrhea.