C. diff infection can cause diarrhea. While it may lead your poop to change color, there are no specific colors that are definitive evidence of having C. diff. According to the Centers for Disease ...

The good grass from your neighbor—that’s the poop. This approach, fighting C. diff with healthy stool, is currently the only governmentally certified use of FMT. Last year, the Food and Drug ...

This includes via: Touching an infected object: C. diff is contagious and can pass from person to person. Touching objects, including food and surfaces, that have been in contact with feces (poop ...

The approval of Rebyota is "an advance in caring for patients who have recurrent C. difficile infection," Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research ...

C. diff causes about half a million infections in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Factors that increase risk of C. diff infection include ...

Consuming foods containing probiotics can be beneficial if a person has a clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection. A doctor may also recommend probiotic supplements. C. diff is a strain of ...

Poop transplant therapy has been approved by ... About one in six patients who get C. diff will get it again in the subsequent two-8 weeks. One in 11 people over age 65 diagnosed with a healthcare ...

Twenty years ago, a respected colleague asked me to perform a “poop transplant” on a local ... Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or often C. diff) is a potentially catastrophic ...

Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff ... receiving poop from a donor ...

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment that's made using donated human poop, the agency ... lower digestive tract. C. diff is estimated to cause ...