Question

A 78-year-year-old hospital inpatient develops profuse watery diarrhoea 5 days after completing a course of Co-amoxiclav. A stool sample is positive for C. difficile toxin. This is his first episode, classified as mild/moderate. What is the most appropriate treatment?

Accepted Answer

Oral Vancomycin

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Oral Metronidazole

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Oral Fidaxomicin

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Intravenous Metronidazole

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Loperamide

Practice question

A 78-year-year-old hospital inpatient develops profuse watery diarrhoea 5 days after completing a course of Co-amoxiclav. A stool sample is positive for C. difficile toxin. This is his first episode, classified as mild/moderate. What is the most appropriate treatment?