Pilot project: 'evidence that using probiotics may help in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea'

Nutrition and bio-friendly microbes - simple answers to C.difficile?


News: 2 Nov 06:

The official ACTION PLAN response to the HEALTHCARE COMMISSION INVESTIGATION INTO OUTBREAKS OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE AT STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL, by BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NHS TRUST V12 submitted to HCC 23 October 2006 is now published online. C.diff Action PLan

Independent researcher Grace Filby comments: "... they have still completely overlooked the point about nutrition and the nutritional supplements as reported by the dieticians."

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This news comes in the same week that forward-thinking West Suffolk hospital's infection control team announce that are going to try probiotics (friendly bacteria) as a £2000 pilot project, based on some evidence that using probiotics may help in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. The project is led by consultant microbiologist Dr Caroline Barker.


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Canadian microbiologist G.W. Bill Riedel notes today 5 November: "The work for curing C. diff was done in Texas (2000) and only with animals but the authors stated that C. diff was an ideal disease to cure with bacteriophages."


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