Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can infect the bowel and cause diarrhea. The risk factors of getting Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) includes patients that have been treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, more susceptible people and hospitalization (1). Patients in hospital have higher chances to get CDI because the spores of Clostridium difficile can be accidentally ingested which may be transported by infected patients to others. Besides that, taking antibiotic can lead to loss of commensal and normal bacteria thus promote the growth of Clostridium difficile (2).
Symptoms of a people carry this bacterium in their intestines usually develops within 10 days after they started a course of broad spectrum of antibiotic (2). The common symptoms of a people getting CDI are people might suffered include water diarrhoea 10 to 15 times a day, painful tummy cramps, signs of dehydration, loss of appetite, blood or pus in the stool and nausea (2). These can cause associated problems to CDI. First, severe water diarrhea can result in dehydration due to the loss of fluid and eventually may cause kidney failure. Besides that, in rare condition, if the colon is unable to expel toxic gas, it may swell and is known as toxic megacolon (2). Furthermore, patients will have chances of …show more content…
Fecal transplantation and probiotics are introduced in the management of Clostridium difficile infection. Fecal transplantation is a process in which fecal matter is collected from donor and placed in the patient (4). Fecal transplantation involves the introduction of gut bacteria from healthy donor into patient and this method should rebalance the body system (5). The process of reintroduced gut bacteria is efficient as it can highly reduce the recurrence of CDI. Researchers found out that fecal transplantation have cure rate of almost 90% and only 15% of recurrence rate