You didn't feed him sugar free gummi bears did you?
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Originally Posted By: Trav
You didn't feed him sugar free gummi bears did you?
JK, prayer sent.
Thank You Trav
You didn't feed him sugar free gummi bears did you?
Thank You Trav
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Really Do hope your Nephew is doing better....He will be in my prayers as well.
God Bless.
Jeff
God Bless.
Jeff
Prayer sent, Car51.
If the boy hasn't been to a hospital yet, I think he is long overdue going as he has been sick since Christmas. I don't know the situation or how easy taking him to a hospital is, but that would be my number 1 priority no matter what.
If the boy hasn't been to a hospital yet, I think he is long overdue going as he has been sick since Christmas. I don't know the situation or how easy taking him to a hospital is, but that would be my number 1 priority no matter what.
Sorry to hear about the crumb snatcher 51. Prayers sent and you should try to light a prayer candle for him at church tomorrow.
Originally Posted By: irv
Prayer sent, Car51.
If the boy hasn't been to a hospital yet, I think he is long overdue going as he has been sick since Christmas. I don't know the situation or how easy taking him to a hospital is, but that would be my number 1 priority no matter what.
Yep, not to mention a child gets dehydrated very easily and makes things worse.
Prayer sent, Car51.
If the boy hasn't been to a hospital yet, I think he is long overdue going as he has been sick since Christmas. I don't know the situation or how easy taking him to a hospital is, but that would be my number 1 priority no matter what.
Yep, not to mention a child gets dehydrated very easily and makes things worse.
Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Sorry to hear about the crumb snatcher 51. Prayers sent and you should try to light a prayer candle for him at church tomorrow.
Will do sir. He was sick before Christmas with runs and vomiting and got over it. Stayed healthy around and bit after Christmas back sick again. He is in hospital also as they are watching him and waiting on test results.
Thank You all folks
Sorry to hear about the crumb snatcher 51. Prayers sent and you should try to light a prayer candle for him at church tomorrow.
Will do sir. He was sick before Christmas with runs and vomiting and got over it. Stayed healthy around and bit after Christmas back sick again. He is in hospital also as they are watching him and waiting on test results.
Thank You all folks
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I've had C-DIFF and it was NOT fun.
C-DIFF is generally the result of being on a broad-spectrum antibiotic and then being exposed to the C-DIFF bacteria which takes advantage of your digestive tract being devoid of its regular bulk of beneficial bacteria (killed off by the antibiotic) which allows it to take over. The result is generally an incredible amount of liquid stool coming out your backside as anything that enters the intestines gets sent out the other end as quickly as possible. This can result in serious dehydration and potentially death if not treated.
The most common place to catch C-DIFF at is at a hospital either while on an antibiotic or shortly after being on one. That's how I got it, I was coming off one for a sinus infection and worked in a facility where C-DIFF was present.
The treatment is, ironically, yet another broad-spectrum antibiotic
One of the side effects for which was frequent bowel movements. So it's like they turn you down from Warp Drive to Mach 1. You are still going too much, but it's a lot less than every 7 minutes.
I didn't have nausea or vomiting when I had it, nor do I recall that being a common symptom at the time (was otherwise normal)
C-DIFF is generally the result of being on a broad-spectrum antibiotic and then being exposed to the C-DIFF bacteria which takes advantage of your digestive tract being devoid of its regular bulk of beneficial bacteria (killed off by the antibiotic) which allows it to take over. The result is generally an incredible amount of liquid stool coming out your backside as anything that enters the intestines gets sent out the other end as quickly as possible. This can result in serious dehydration and potentially death if not treated.
The most common place to catch C-DIFF at is at a hospital either while on an antibiotic or shortly after being on one. That's how I got it, I was coming off one for a sinus infection and worked in a facility where C-DIFF was present.
The treatment is, ironically, yet another broad-spectrum antibiotic
I didn't have nausea or vomiting when I had it, nor do I recall that being a common symptom at the time (was otherwise normal)
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Originally Posted By: alarmguy
Hoping the best for him, prayers ...
This
THIS
Originally Posted By: alarmguy
Hoping the best for him, prayers ...
This
THIS
I came across this story on the CBC News site about the rise of C difficile outbreaks world-wide and possible cause. The story also links to a piece on the science radio show Quirks and Quarks that discusses it.
This link has something about beetles, but ignore that. It has nothing to do with the C difficile story and does not appear at that link. Idiots at the CBC walk among us.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/how-an-oddly-large-beetle-[censored]-is-inspiring-new-medical-technology-and-more-1.4470178/this-food-additive-is-hard-to-avoid-and-could-make-hospital-superbugs-more-deadly-1.4470200
This link has something about beetles, but ignore that. It has nothing to do with the C difficile story and does not appear at that link. Idiots at the CBC walk among us.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/how-an-oddly-large-beetle-[censored]-is-inspiring-new-medical-technology-and-more-1.4470178/this-food-additive-is-hard-to-avoid-and-could-make-hospital-superbugs-more-deadly-1.4470200
The site censored a medical and scientific dirty word, breaking the link.
So go to cbc.ca/news and look for the story heading This food additive is hard to avoid and could make hospital superbugs more deadly
It's on the right-hand side of the page. As of this post, it's at the top.
So go to cbc.ca/news and look for the story heading This food additive is hard to avoid and could make hospital superbugs more deadly
It's on the right-hand side of the page. As of this post, it's at the top.
Originally Posted By: car51
Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Sorry to hear about the crumb snatcher 51. Prayers sent and you should try to light a prayer candle for him at church tomorrow.
Will do sir. He was sick before Christmas with runs and vomiting and got over it. Stayed healthy around and bit after Christmas back sick again. He is in hospital also as they are watching him and waiting on test results.
Thank You all folks
Good to hear, Car51. Here is the article if you had trouble finding it?
Rise of C. difficile outbreaks
A common sugar additive in food may fuel deadlier outbreaks of a superbug in hospitals, researchers say.
Clostridium difficile can cause a serious bacterial infection that can rampage through hospitals and lead to severe diarrhea and death. The bowel bug is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
After 2000, epidemic strains unexpectedly took off in Canada, the United States and Europe and deaths increased dramatically. Why it became so common and severe so quickly had scientists stumped.
This week, American, British and Dutch researchers said they found a new reason to consider: changes in our food supply.
The findings suggest that when the food industry widely adopted the sugar, called trehalose, into food manufacturing, it played a major role in the emergence of super-strong strains of C. difficile.
Research Paper in Nature
Nature Commentary
hi-hamilton-cdifficile-stjoseph
C. difficile outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care homes are difficult to control. (Jessica Young/CBC)
"Sugar permeates a lot of our diet in ways … we're not really aware of," said Robert Britton, a professor of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, who led the study. "Trehalose is a bit of sugar now that the food industry is pretty excited about."
Until now, scientists focused on the toxins that C. difficile produces when people are on antibiotics. The toxins damage the epithelium lining our intestines, Britton said. His team focused on whether the stronger strains of C. difficile outcompetes its cousins. Yes, their series of experiments suggests.
'It was clear that it was more severe disease and we did see more toxins produced. So there's something more to it about the way that trehalose impacts the physiology of these pathogens inside the intestinal tract.'
- Robert Britton
When scientists analyzed the genomes of stronger strains of C. difficile, they found RNA sequences that allowed the bacteria to fuel up on low concentrations of trehalose in a way other strains couldn't.
"Trehalose was able to support growth of ribotype 027 at much lower concentrations than all other garden varieties of C. difficile strains," Britton said.
Table sugar or sucrose is a disaccharide that includes two simpler sugars linked to each other. Trehalose is also a disaccharide. In the food and pharmaceutical industries, trehalose's unique bond offers advantages over other sugars, Britton said.
'Surprising result'
C. difficile bacteria
An illustration of a single Clostridium difficile bacillus. (James Archer/CDC)
Does trehalose mean there's more bacteria or that they are stronger or more virulent?
"That was the surprising result," Britton told CBC Radio Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald. "We thought maybe they would just make the bacteria more abundant in the intestines of mice. But they didn't. It was clear that it was more severe disease and we did see more toxins produced. So there's something more to it about the way that trehalose impacts the physiology of these pathogens inside the intestinal tract."
After manufacturing innovations slashed the cost of trehalose production, food manufacturers applied to regulators like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, European agencies and Health Canada to use trehalose in food. Regulators agreed.
'Unfortunate perfect storm'
Jimmy Ballard, professor and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center reviewed the study and published a related journal commentary on it.
'[T]he strains could have emerged in the human populations due to their ability to use low levels of trehalose as a nutrient source and outcompete other strains. Then, as a result of producing a stronger toxin, the strains make patients sicker. An unfortunate perfect storm.'
- Jimmy Ballard
Trehalose seemed to cause one of the strong bacterial strains to produce higher levels of toxin, said Ballard. He studies differences in the toxins that different forms of C. difficile make.
Ballard called the new findings compelling because they fill in the picture of how C. difficile emerged at such high levels when it did. The more toxins are made, the sicker people will be.
"The trehalose models now suggests the strains could have emerged in the human populations due to their ability to use low levels of trehalose as a nutrient source and out compete other strains. Then, as a result of producing a stronger toxin, the strains make patients sicker. An unfortunate perfect storm," Ballard said in an email.
The circumstantial and experimental evidence points to trehalose as an "unexpected culprit" in outbreaks of C. difficile since 2001, Ballard concluded in the journal.
The food manufacturer Cargill successfully applied to Health Canada to add trehalose in the food supply. The company said it is reviewing the new study.
For Ballard, the implications could be more far reaching. As industry introduces new food additives to the food supply, it could influence the microbiome — the teeming populations of microbes in and on us that help and hinder health — in ways that no one can predict, for better or worse, he said.
Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Sorry to hear about the crumb snatcher 51. Prayers sent and you should try to light a prayer candle for him at church tomorrow.
Will do sir. He was sick before Christmas with runs and vomiting and got over it. Stayed healthy around and bit after Christmas back sick again. He is in hospital also as they are watching him and waiting on test results.
Thank You all folks
Good to hear, Car51. Here is the article if you had trouble finding it?
Rise of C. difficile outbreaks
A common sugar additive in food may fuel deadlier outbreaks of a superbug in hospitals, researchers say.
Clostridium difficile can cause a serious bacterial infection that can rampage through hospitals and lead to severe diarrhea and death. The bowel bug is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
After 2000, epidemic strains unexpectedly took off in Canada, the United States and Europe and deaths increased dramatically. Why it became so common and severe so quickly had scientists stumped.
This week, American, British and Dutch researchers said they found a new reason to consider: changes in our food supply.
The findings suggest that when the food industry widely adopted the sugar, called trehalose, into food manufacturing, it played a major role in the emergence of super-strong strains of C. difficile.
Research Paper in Nature
Nature Commentary
hi-hamilton-cdifficile-stjoseph
C. difficile outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care homes are difficult to control. (Jessica Young/CBC)
"Sugar permeates a lot of our diet in ways … we're not really aware of," said Robert Britton, a professor of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, who led the study. "Trehalose is a bit of sugar now that the food industry is pretty excited about."
Until now, scientists focused on the toxins that C. difficile produces when people are on antibiotics. The toxins damage the epithelium lining our intestines, Britton said. His team focused on whether the stronger strains of C. difficile outcompetes its cousins. Yes, their series of experiments suggests.
'It was clear that it was more severe disease and we did see more toxins produced. So there's something more to it about the way that trehalose impacts the physiology of these pathogens inside the intestinal tract.'
- Robert Britton
When scientists analyzed the genomes of stronger strains of C. difficile, they found RNA sequences that allowed the bacteria to fuel up on low concentrations of trehalose in a way other strains couldn't.
"Trehalose was able to support growth of ribotype 027 at much lower concentrations than all other garden varieties of C. difficile strains," Britton said.
Table sugar or sucrose is a disaccharide that includes two simpler sugars linked to each other. Trehalose is also a disaccharide. In the food and pharmaceutical industries, trehalose's unique bond offers advantages over other sugars, Britton said.
'Surprising result'
C. difficile bacteria
An illustration of a single Clostridium difficile bacillus. (James Archer/CDC)
Does trehalose mean there's more bacteria or that they are stronger or more virulent?
"That was the surprising result," Britton told CBC Radio Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald. "We thought maybe they would just make the bacteria more abundant in the intestines of mice. But they didn't. It was clear that it was more severe disease and we did see more toxins produced. So there's something more to it about the way that trehalose impacts the physiology of these pathogens inside the intestinal tract."
After manufacturing innovations slashed the cost of trehalose production, food manufacturers applied to regulators like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, European agencies and Health Canada to use trehalose in food. Regulators agreed.
'Unfortunate perfect storm'
Jimmy Ballard, professor and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center reviewed the study and published a related journal commentary on it.
'[T]he strains could have emerged in the human populations due to their ability to use low levels of trehalose as a nutrient source and outcompete other strains. Then, as a result of producing a stronger toxin, the strains make patients sicker. An unfortunate perfect storm.'
- Jimmy Ballard
Trehalose seemed to cause one of the strong bacterial strains to produce higher levels of toxin, said Ballard. He studies differences in the toxins that different forms of C. difficile make.
Ballard called the new findings compelling because they fill in the picture of how C. difficile emerged at such high levels when it did. The more toxins are made, the sicker people will be.
"The trehalose models now suggests the strains could have emerged in the human populations due to their ability to use low levels of trehalose as a nutrient source and out compete other strains. Then, as a result of producing a stronger toxin, the strains make patients sicker. An unfortunate perfect storm," Ballard said in an email.
The circumstantial and experimental evidence points to trehalose as an "unexpected culprit" in outbreaks of C. difficile since 2001, Ballard concluded in the journal.
The food manufacturer Cargill successfully applied to Health Canada to add trehalose in the food supply. The company said it is reviewing the new study.
For Ballard, the implications could be more far reaching. As industry introduces new food additives to the food supply, it could influence the microbiome — the teeming populations of microbes in and on us that help and hinder health — in ways that no one can predict, for better or worse, he said.
Thank You irv for the article
Best wishes for your nephew's path forward car51.
How's your mom doing?
How's your mom doing?
Originally Posted By: Nyogtha
Best wishes for your nephew's path forward car51.
How's your mom doing?
Mom is doing great. Still takes a dose of Mira Lax daily but she’s great other than that. Loves making quilts; for friends and family. Mine is on my bed warming under my Hotpoint electric blanket as we speak
Best wishes for your nephew's path forward car51.
How's your mom doing?
Mom is doing great. Still takes a dose of Mira Lax daily but she’s great other than that. Loves making quilts; for friends and family. Mine is on my bed warming under my Hotpoint electric blanket as we speak
Car51,
Prayers to your nephew & family. I was at high risk for C. Diff when I was on heavy duty oral and IV antibiotics for 4 years for a stubborn bone infection. My infectious disease specialist said the only reason I did not contract C. Diff was because I took probiotics (good bacteria for the gut) midway between antibiotic doses and used Metamucil every day. Kept the diarrhea at bay quite well. I wholeheartedly recommend a probiotic blend by the name of PB-8. It's available at The Vitamin Shoppe and at various places online.
Again, prayers to all!
Prayers to your nephew & family. I was at high risk for C. Diff when I was on heavy duty oral and IV antibiotics for 4 years for a stubborn bone infection. My infectious disease specialist said the only reason I did not contract C. Diff was because I took probiotics (good bacteria for the gut) midway between antibiotic doses and used Metamucil every day. Kept the diarrhea at bay quite well. I wholeheartedly recommend a probiotic blend by the name of PB-8. It's available at The Vitamin Shoppe and at various places online.
Again, prayers to all!
***UPDATE***
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
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Great.Prayers worked..or at least didn't hurt.
Originally Posted By: car51
***UPDATE***
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
***UPDATE***
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
Originally Posted By: irv
Originally Posted By: car51
***UPDATE***
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
+1, the power of prayer esp in numbers works imo.
Originally Posted By: car51
***UPDATE***
Nephew had solid #2 for lack of a better word this morning and feeling better. Guess he didn’t have c diff
Thanks to all your thoughts and prayers. You ARE ALL the best
+1, the power of prayer esp in numbers works imo.
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