Went to doctor yesterday. New theory is that IBS-D could be resultant from a lingering C-diff infection. Over a year ago, Kayla had a kidney infection. It was during the ultrasound examinations that the hospital discovered splenic cysts as well. She has now had two operations for partial splenectomy in order to de-roof the cysts. All three came back one time and one has come back a second time. We do not yet have any theories about a connection between cysts on the spleen and the current problem of Hashimoto’s. We also don’t yet have any theories about a connection between the kidney infection and the Hashimoto’s.
But, there may be some merit to the connection from the treatment of the kidney infection. At that time, Kayla was put on antibiotics. It looks like this is a very common occurance Antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. When Kayla had this course of antibiotics, there was no protocol prescribed for probiotics afterwards. I believe this was a large oversight.
So, the question is how best to treat this. This coming weekend, we’re going to get a test kit from Quest Diagnostics to test for C-diff presence. If confirmed, there will be a protocol of other antibiotics. I think that if we dose with probiotics appropriately after the treatment, then we have a good shot at managing the infection.
Another note is that several months ago Kayla went to a clinic for a colonic. It was a good experience at Colon Care. Now, we don’t necessarily agree with claims of magic occuring after colonics or agree with the idea that this is something that everyone should be doing all the time, but Kayla has indicated that she had regular bowel movements for over a week following the colonic. Theory is that the colonic washed out enough of the c-diff to reduce inflammation and allow proper digestive action until the c-diff once again multiplied and took over.
Following the screening test for c-diff, plan is to have another colonic and maintain current protocol of high soluble fiber with probiotic treatment until test results come back confirming c-diff. At that time, we can either see if colonic followed by probiotics can handle it alone or if we need to continue with a new antibiotic treatment round.
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