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Antibiotics and C difficle

Rudebekia
11 years ago

Just a warning for anyone taking antibiotics! After several weeks of ugly symptoms I was finally diagnosed with C diff. I was on the antibiotic Clindamycin in late December after dental surgery. Antibiotics deplete the "good" bacteria in your gut and that's what happened. Evidently I caught a stomach flu that should have lasted just a few days but went on and on: terrible, terrible stuff! Doc now has me on a prescription and big doses of probiotics to restore my gut and I'm feeling substantially better within 24 hours. It seems the general advice is that anyone taking antibiotics should also take probiotics but few doctors/dentists will tell you that.

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