Clostridium difficile and Probiotics

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is an opportunistic pathogen. It takes advantage of the aged, children and the immune-compromised people and has caused severe attacks that have led to several deaths in the UK and the USA. This is common with in-patients and could even be contracted through medical personnel. Multi-drug resistance by pathogenic microbes resulted in the prevalence C. diff. This review discovered that antibiotic resistance by patience could be traced to what we eat especially beef, milk, fish, and poultry products from animals that had earlier been placed on antibiotics. This review seeks an alternative since the antibiotic war on pathogens is failing to, rescue human race from this catastrophe. Probiotics is veritable replacement for antibiotics. Also, adequate and regular sanitisations of the hospital premises and more careful attention to personal hygiene by the personnel could be helpful in preventing its spread. Patients fed with probiotics showed better recovery and those that received more regular supplies of probiotics showed quicker recovery and improved health. Probiotics, therefore, is a panacea to the Clostridium difficle associated diseases (CDAD) insurgence.