How long am I able to pass on C difficile if the diaherra has stopped?!
Question: Unfortunately you can still pass C Diff on after symptoms are over if you are colonized. The only way to tell if you have gotten it out of your system is to be retested.
It's really difficult to get rid of and very common to have living in your gut at low levels.
The best you can do is wash your hands well after using the bathroom and before cooking (30 seconds - wet hands, soap hands, suds up, start count - front, back, between the fingers - sing Row, row, row your boat 3 times to count, then rinse).
Also, if you are sexually active, you can pass it on via oral sex. ie having someone go down on you, if you are colonized.
Sorry it isn't better news.
Answers: Unfortunately you can still pass C Diff on after symptoms are over if you are colonized. The only way to tell if you have gotten it out of your system is to be retested.
It's really difficult to get rid of and very common to have living in your gut at low levels.
The best you can do is wash your hands well after using the bathroom and before cooking (30 seconds - wet hands, soap hands, suds up, start count - front, back, between the fingers - sing Row, row, row your boat 3 times to count, then rinse).
Also, if you are sexually active, you can pass it on via oral sex. ie having someone go down on you, if you are colonized.
Sorry it isn't better news.
You could still be colonized with the organism even when the diarrhea has stopped. It's very difficult to kill, quite frankly, due to it's resistance to most antibiotics. Some people are 'sub clinically' colonized all their lives. As long as you and your family are using good bathroom hygiene, like handwashing everytime you used the bathroom the rates of transmission are low. So there is no good specific answer to this one.
P.S. the spores from the heat-resistance bacteria are hard to kill on surfaces, so I would reccommend cleaning toilet and bathroom surfaces with a diluted bleach solution which is the most effective way to kill it.
I would consider yourself 'infected' for at least a week after the diarrhea has stopped.
my wife is a nurse and says if the diaherra has stopped and the anti biotics are finished ,you can't pass it on anymore
Hello, I have had C. Difficile before and I know how you feel. Once you start treating it and the diarrhea has stopped than you should should not be able to pass it along.