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I teach cpr, first aid, and bloodbourne pathogens for the red cross so I think that part of my germophobe behavior comes from knowing what I know, but also, I went to college to get a nursing degree and standard and universal precautions get drilled into your head during classes, labs and clinicals. Also, my mom passed away back in 2006 from complications from a c-diff infection that went untreated. The c-diff infection caused a MRSA staph infection and she also developed gas gangrene. I went to visit her a month and a half before she died and at that point, she was using depends and had diarrhea all of the time. I knew that it was a c-diff infection and I told her that it looked like that was what she had and all she would need to do was to see her doctor and give him a stool sample. Sadly, she didn't do it but I think that by the time that the c-diff infection started, she had already mentally made up her mind that she didn't want to live with the pain that she was living through (she had diabetes and complete kidney failure. She was on dialysis 4 to 5 times a week. She also had diabetic neuropathy and an enlarged heart as well.) Had she gone to seek treatment for the c-diff right away, then she may have been able to take an antibiotic like Flagyll and it may have cleared up, but I truly think that she was done with the constant pain. C-diff is no joke, no matter what age the person with it is. It's contagious and it can lead to other infections. Probably not in healthy people, but I'd rather use gloves just to set my mind at ease. Watching my mother die from the gas gangrene infection that was started by the c-diff was enough to get me to make sure that always use gloves.
I teach cpr, first aid, and bloodbourne pathogens for the red cross so I think that part of my germophobe behavior comes from knowing what I know, but also, I went to college to get a nursing degree and standard and universal precautions get drilled into your head during classes, labs and clinicals. Also, my mom passed away back in 2006 from complications from a c-diff infection that went untreated. The c-diff infection caused a MRSA staph infection and she also developed gas gangrene. I went to visit her a month and a half before she died and at that point, she was using depends and had diarrhea all of the time. I knew that it was a c-diff infection and I told her that it looked like that was what she had and all she would need to do was to see her doctor and give him a stool sample. Sadly, she didn't do it but I think that by the time that the c-diff infection started, she had already mentally made up her mind that she didn't want to live with the pain that she was living through (she had diabetes and complete kidney failure. She was on dialysis 4 to 5 times a week. She also had diabetic neuropathy and an enlarged heart as well.) Had she gone to seek treatment for the c-diff right away, then she may have been able to take an antibiotic like Flagyll and it may have cleared up, but I truly think that she was done with the constant pain. C-diff is no joke, no matter what age the person with it is. It's contagious and it can lead to other infections. Probably not in healthy people, but I'd rather use gloves just to set my mind at ease. Watching my mother die from the gas gangrene infection that was started by the c-diff was enough to get me to make sure that always use gloves.
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