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What Causes Severe Diarrhea And Vomiting In An Elderly Person?
my 98 y/o aunt is in nursing home/rehab and has had severe diarrhea ,no appetite and vomiting...this followed a lot of antibiotics she had for double pneumonia. She is positive for C Diff and has had flagyl,proantibiotics and now vancomycin.this has been going on for 3 weeks...she gets better then a few days later she starts again with the same symptons..They collected another stool sample today. also we had her in er 2 weeks ago and she had a severe UTI She is miserable and deteriorating,,,,, any suggestions
Wed, 4 May 2016
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I really appreciate your concern, if the patient is on antibiotic and have diarrhea symptoms then it may be due to antibiotic induced, antibiotic disturb the intestine flora and it causes the diarrhea once the course of antibiotic overs diarrhea comes under control, it is advisable to stop antibiotic if it not much indicated, Lyophilized Lactobacillus can be used, hydration need to be taken care, hope this information helps.
Well come to HCM
I really appreciate your concern, if the patient is on antibiotic and have diarrhea symptoms then it may be due to antibiotic induced, antibiotic disturb the intestine flora and it causes the diarrhea once the course of antibiotic overs diarrhea comes under control, it is advisable to stop antibiotic if it not much indicated, Lyophilized Lactobacillus can be used, hydration need to be taken care, hope this information helps.
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