Gut Under Siege: C. diff Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe Clostridioides difficile infection. Writers describe the course that started it — a dental antibiotic, a chest infection, a hospital stay, a surgery — and the diarrhoea that was not like anything before it. There is naming the thing: the stool test, the isolation room, the infection control precautions that make a patient feel like a hazard, and the fear when colitis becomes severe. Then life measured in bathrooms: the weight lost, the exhaustion, the housebound months, the anxiety about ever leaving. Writers describe coming back on vancomycin or fidaxomicin, and what happened when it returned — the second and third recurrences, the tapered regimens, and faecal microbiota transplantation described in detail by people it cured within days. Later chapters cover the wards and households, and the cases that did not resolve cleanly.

Who it's for

For anyone with recurrent C. diff, families and carers managing infection control at home, and readers who want a plain account of what faecal transplant involves.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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