Preventing / Treating Clostridium difficile cont
  • Treatment guidelines - pharmacy intranet page
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  • Test all patient with significant diarrhoea including those who
  • were exposed to antibiotics (not just one episode loose stool!)
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  • Once test positive it can remain so for months so no point
  • re-testing
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  • False negative can occur early on after symptom onset, so
  • worth repeating if strong clinical suspicion