Infectious Disease Patient Education
Clostridium Difficile
C. Difficile is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon. Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long-term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications, however, studies have shown increasing rates of C. difficile infection among people traditionally not considered high risk, such as younger and healthy individuals without a history of antibiotic use or other obvious exposure. Each year, more than a half million people get sick from C. diff, and in recent years, these infections have become more frequent, severe, and difficult to treat.
MRSA
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a type of staph bacteria that has become resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat ordinary staph infections. Most MRSA infections occur in people who've been in hospitals or other health care settings but can also occur in the wider population among healthy people. LIDC can help to treat and eradicate recurrent MRSA infections.