Antibiotics can increase risk from bacteria
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Wednesday November 04 2009
Clostridium difficile, which is also know as 'C difficile' and 'C diff' is a bacteria or germ that normally lives in your large intestine (the gut or bowel).
A small proportion -- or less than one in 20 of the healthy adult population -- carry a small amount of clostridium difficile and won't experience any problem with it.
It is kept in check by the normal, 'good' bacteria of the intestine.
However, when you take an antibiotic, some of the 'good' bacteria die, causing the clostridium difficile bacteria to multiply and can cause an infection in the large intestine.
Irish Independent
