Gotta question for ya. Not seeking medical advice here, just wanna know if this makes sense to you.
A healthcare worker told a co-worker of mine that there are three strains of C.diff going around. "One caused by antibiotics/you get it in the hospital, one in nursing homes, and one is being spread by people touching shopping carts that someone infected by C.diff has touched."
I told her that anti-biotics don't CAUSE it per se, but they can kill off the good bacteria in your body which could leave you susceptible to other illnesses. As for the rest...correct me, please--I mean that--if I'm wrong, but it seems unlikely that (a) there could be only one strain of C.diff that might be found on shopping cart handles, and (b) that anyone could possibly know for a fact that everybody who came down with C.diff caught it from touching an infected shopping cart!
And this came from a healthcare worker...
A healthcare worker told a co-worker of mine that there are three strains of C.diff going around. "One caused by antibiotics/you get it in the hospital, one in nursing homes, and one is being spread by people touching shopping carts that someone infected by C.diff has touched."
I told her that anti-biotics don't CAUSE it per se, but they can kill off the good bacteria in your body which could leave you susceptible to other illnesses. As for the rest...correct me, please--I mean that--if I'm wrong, but it seems unlikely that (a) there could be only one strain of C.diff that might be found on shopping cart handles, and (b) that anyone could possibly know for a fact that everybody who came down with C.diff caught it from touching an infected shopping cart!
And this came from a healthcare worker...
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