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Super Contributor
Posts: 375
Registered: ‎03-17-2010

Kismet, I am so glad you are doing better!!!

Hope your health continues to improve!!

In Sunny AZ
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Registered: ‎09-01-2010

I totally understand the stress and aggravation that comes from fighting an active c-diff infection. However, regardless of how careful you are about touching things in a hospital, doctors office, grocery store, restaurant, etc., the fact of the matter is that you still carry c-diff spores inside your body, and always will. You have beaten an active infection twice, but c-diff spores are still living inside the deep recesses of your intestine just waiting for the trigger that sets them off and causes them to colonize into another active infection. Because these nasty bugs can live anywhere, all of us have been exposed to c-diff and MRSA in our daily lives, and the spores are just waiting for something to activate their growth. It is not uncommon for only one person in the household to have c-diff, and no one else be affected.