Question about dormant spores?
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Question about dormant spores?
Post cdiff infection, say for example ~1.5 yrs, can dormant cdiff spores become activated by certain foods you eat?
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Re: Question about dormant spores?
Spores remain dorment outside the body.
I would think that any spore that stayed in the body after a bout of c.diff would have vegetated within 1.5 years and been eliminated by the gut flora/immune system.
Or the gut has accepted it as a normal flora and does not react to it.
I don't think any foods can cause a c.diff relapse.
But foods can be contaminated and cause a new infection.
If you Google food born c.diff it will frighten the hell out if you!
Thorough cooking kills most of it but those cold processed meats are worrying.
I would think that any spore that stayed in the body after a bout of c.diff would have vegetated within 1.5 years and been eliminated by the gut flora/immune system.
Or the gut has accepted it as a normal flora and does not react to it.
I don't think any foods can cause a c.diff relapse.
But foods can be contaminated and cause a new infection.
If you Google food born c.diff it will frighten the hell out if you!
Thorough cooking kills most of it but those cold processed meats are worrying.
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Re: Question about dormant spores?
I think the spores can be part of your normal flora and that is why some people are carriers. If your Gi tract gets depleted of good bacteria to counterbalance the c difficile, you can relapse, but I have not heard of any foods causing a relapse. Foods can aggravate IBS or other GI issues such as Crohn's, colitis, etc.
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Re: Question about dormant spores?
Active vegetated c.diff is involved in colonisation.
It does produce spores that pass out in faeces to seek a new host and it does produce toxins.
The immune system keeps it in check or does not react to it, that's how the vaccine will work, you still get it but it does not become a disease.
The vaccine is only possible because some people that catch c.diff recover and become immune to its effects.
Tests will still be positive in those immune people.
There's a few who post that might be in that catagory.
It does produce spores that pass out in faeces to seek a new host and it does produce toxins.
The immune system keeps it in check or does not react to it, that's how the vaccine will work, you still get it but it does not become a disease.
The vaccine is only possible because some people that catch c.diff recover and become immune to its effects.
Tests will still be positive in those immune people.
There's a few who post that might be in that catagory.
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