Diarrhea

Diarrhea

Experts reported that in U.S. hospitals diarrhea is now getting deadly cause as its increasing in tremendous pace.

In every 1000 hospitals patients approximately 15 are infected with Clostridium difficile and its 30 times greater then previous time. Data collected had been collected approximately 13000 members of Clostridium difficile patient.

Dr. William Jarvis (health-care epidemiologist) said: as the U.S. population gets older and more frail, more patients are at risk of serious Clostridium difficile that can kill them.
He also mentioned in an interview that: "You can get disease that ranges all the way from simple diarrhea all the way to perforation of the bowel requiring surgery, ... shock and death".

The most commonly used antibiotic for Clostridium difficile is metronidazole, but some severe and antibiotic-resistant forms must be treated with vancomycin.