C. diff infection can cause diarrhea. While it may lead your poop to change color, there are no specific colors that are definitive evidence of having C. diff. According to the Centers for Disease ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

Traditional vs. novel therapy Fecal microbiota transplant has been used as the traditional treatment for C. diff. infection for a little over a decade. The procedure, which is done via colonoscopy, ...

C. diff, short for Clostridioides difficile (formerly called Clostridum difficile), is a type of bacteria that can cause an infection in your colon, the longest part of your large intestine. In most ...

During my family's annual vacation last year, I got COVID-19. Frustrated by having to cancel so many plans, I remember thinking, "At least it can't get much worse than this." As a nurse and mom though ...

In late 2023, Alexandra, a 66-year-old retired woman in D.C., was defrosting a piece of human feces that she purchased over the internet. Her goal was to reduce the stool into a sloshy, biologically ...

Harvard researchers make the case for people storing their poop when young, in order to restore their gut microbiomes later in life. Reading time 3 minutes Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are ...

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Faex Health, a fast-growing digital health startup, today announced the release of its C. difficile ...

Citing potential disclosure requirements from the Food and Drug Administration, lack of insurance coverage and lack of support among clinicians, the founders of stool-donation initiative, OpenBiome, ...

There are about half a million C. diff infections every year in the United States. About 30,000 people die from them annually. But if you’ve had C. diff, you’re more likely to get it again. About 1 in ...

A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...