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TOMS2HEALTH · Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

03/08/2007
My 65 year old brother is in a nursing home. I recived a call
from the nurse that my brother was dieing.The nurse asked me if I would
like hospic to come or send him to the hospital.I said send him to the hospital. Buy the time he went in he was in critical condition. Me my Wife
& sister arived he was in intensive care unit. I had talked with the doctor
he had said my brother was in sestemic shock.He has C dif that caused this.He was on Life support for 2 days. and is now off it but still not out of
the woods.I really have some ? about the nursing home doctor on staff.

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I've worked in nursing homes for a few years and recently started at a new facilty. I am very familiar with c-dif and am well aware of how extremely contagious it is. So I can tell you I was shocked at the lack of precautions taken with residents with c-dif at this new facility.They were putting cloth diapers on these residents and when they had a bm, they had instructed their cna's to take the soiled linens to one of the facility dirty linens room to be SPRAYED OUT before going into the laundry! I could not believe they were so casually putting everyone there at risk. One cna told me to rinse out this poor man's linens and clothes and I refused. It created a argument between myself, the cna and an lpn. Long story short, they made a few changes like, put bins in the mans room(one for laundry and one for trash), put disposable wipes, diapers, and chucks(these lay on the bed to protect the bedding) in the room so nothing would be taken out. But so much contamination had been spread already and I know they hadn't disinfected these areas properly.These were steps in the right direction, but they still havent taken all precautions. For instance, masks, and disposible gowns havent been provided and the soiled laundry and trash should be in biohazard bags and they should have a biohazard room to store these in until properly disposed of. They also have a roommate in with this fellow and I am very concerned for the guy. He should have been moved immediately. All this to say, you have a right to question how this happened to your brother. Research and find the facts on precautions that should be taken, they are standard precautions. Then find out if the nursing home was practicing them. Have the nursing home take you and show you what precautions are in place. Dont take their word for it. Then if you feel its not up to par, them call the State and report them.

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My cousin went in in December and had a baby. She had to have a C - section, because she is so little and she had complications during her pregnancy, well to make a long story short she ended up getting C Dif and was in the hospital for 4 months and almost died. I also have an uncle that went into the same hospital 92 days ago and had a quadruple bi-pass and he not only had complications with his sergery, but now he has C Dif. How common is it for 2 family members, in the same hospital to end up with C dif? No one went to visit the other while they had C dif? How common is C-dif, and what are all the causes of this C Dif?

ansan1 · Newbie Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 1

Is C/Dif contagious? A friend is in the hopsital and her husband was told to be careful and not to kiss her in the mouth. Does this sound right?

Ang

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tlc1971 · Newbie Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 1

I have an 8 month old daughter who has had severe diarhhea for a week and a half. She has no fever, no vomiting and the doctors do NOT think it is rotovirus because no one else in our family is sick (I have 4 children). My daughter has a kidney condition called "Right to Left Crossed Fused Renal Ectopia". Which, in laymen's terms, means that both of her kidneys are on the left side of her body and are connected (fused) by a notch (they present as an "L" shape. Due to urine reflux in the left kidney, she takes the antibiotic bactrim, and will continue to do so until at least the age of one year. (She has been on antibiotics to prevent kidney infection since the day she was born). They sent out a culture for cdif 3 days ago and we are waiting on the results. They stopped the antibiotics in the meantime. So far she has no other symptoms other than the severe diarhhea (about 8 to 15 times per day) and a HORRENDOUS, bloody diaper rash because of it. She already takes Alimentum formula on an everyday basis which is what they would normally put a baby on with severe diarhhea, and she doesn't eat baby food yet (protein allergies run in our family). So, as you can see, there isn't much else we can do to help this and yet the diarhhea continues. Odly enough she has GAINED 3 or 4 ounces and is NOT dehydrated. Does anyone have ANY input?????? Thanks.

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my om actually just got over this infection. she said its the most sick she's ever been in her whole life (she is around 50 years old). it all started with terrible abdominal pain. she suddenly got a terrible backache and a high fever--thats when we rushed her to the hospital. she went to the bathroom every 30 minutes. it was terrible!!!

rudie98 · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

Had a skin rash on leg and took antibotics for low grade fever. She started me on AMOX-CLAV then switched to Keflix. Two days later diarrhea started non-stop and got weak. Visited physician and got I.V. fluids and she stopped the antibotics. I started on metronidazole, order by my doctor. After the fluid therapy I felt some better. The diarrhea slowed down greatlyover the next few days. MY labs showed WBC 15.1 and tool stool sample to test to confirm CDIF. Good luck.

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My mother who is 80 is in a nursing rehab place after falling and breaking her hip. She then developed pneumonia and almost died. Then she got a fever....diarhea...felt nauseous....chills...won't eat. She lost 13 lbs in 14 days. I kept after the nursing rehab people till finally they tested her stools after almost a week of this and they found the C-Dif. So they put her on antibiotic for it and she is on Levaquin for the pneumonia.

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