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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

5. It's extremely contagious

Reply to mackerel (Reply #3)

Thu May 15, 2014, 05:48 PM

May 2014

and I hope she's keeping the toilet meticulously clean and scrubbing her hands every time she has a nasty stool. Those are the ways to stop it, along with antibiotics, else she reinfects herself from her own environment.

It might be time for her to talk to her doc about probiotics and/or a stool transfusion.