Clostridium difficile

Solution from Khawar Nehal Date : 20 October 2013Applied Technology Research Centerhttp://atrc.net.pk Please fund our research by contributing time and resources.

Clostridium difficile

Also known as C Diff.

I got a post in facebook for fecal transplant.

I thought there may be a link to some beneficial chemicals in the transplanted stool which is solving the issue.

So I checked and found it.

Solution Curcumin

The image does not mention it.

But curcumin is one of the useful solutions to Clostridium difficile.

References

http://foolmoon.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/319233/Common_Spice_Kills_C_Difficile.html

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 20 - The spice that lends its brilliant yellow-orange color to mustard, curry powder and other foods could ward off potentially life-threatening infections with Clostridium difficile, according to research presented this week at the American College of Gastroenterology's annual meeting in San Antonio.

"For the last 2000 years people have been using curcumin and we haven't found bacteria resistant to it," Dr. Rattan Patel of the Cedars Sinai Medical Center/VA Medical Center in Los Angeles, who conducted the study, told Reuters Health. Curcumin is found in turmeric, a spice commonly used in Indian cuisine; it's also a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved food coloring agent.

Dr. Patel and his team found that extracts of regular grocery-store turmeric inhibited the growth of C. difficile in vitro, at concentrations that would be easily obtained in the colon by adding the spice to food or consuming it in capsule form.(...)Key questions that still must be resolved, he added, include figuring out whether curcumin affects the absorption of other medications, and whether it would be best to use the spice in capsules or as a food additive.

References

http://foolmoon.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/319233/Common_Spice_Kills_C_Difficile.html

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 20 - The spice that lends its brilliant yellow-orange color to mustard, curry powder and other foods could ward off potentially life-threatening infections with Clostridium difficile, according to research presented this week at the American College of Gastroenterology's annual meeting in San Antonio.

"For the last 2000 years people have been using curcumin and we haven't found bacteria resistant to it," Dr. Rattan Patel of the Cedars Sinai Medical Center/VA Medical Center in Los Angeles, who conducted the study, told Reuters Health. Curcumin is found in turmeric, a spice commonly used in Indian cuisine; it's also a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved food coloring agent.

Dr. Patel and his team found that extracts of regular grocery-store turmeric inhibited the growth of C. difficile in vitro, at concentrations that would be easily obtained in the colon by adding the spice to food or consuming it in capsule form.(...)Key questions that still must be resolved, he added, include figuring out whether curcumin affects the absorption of other medications, and whether it would be best to use the spice in capsules or as a food additive.