People who take opioids for pain relief for extended periods of time may need higher doses to ease their pain. They may develop tolerance to the drug and experience withdrawal symptoms if the medication is abruptly stopped. They become physically dependent on the drug.
Antibiotics most likely to cause C. diff infections are clindamycin, amoxicillin, ampicillin, and cephalosporins, and to a lesser extent, penicillin, erythromycin, and quinolones.
â¢ Promptly identify patients with C diff. Patients will exhibit clinical symptoms (watery diarrhea, fever, nausea, abdominal pain or tenderness, loss of appetite) and test positive for the C diff organism or its toxin. â¢ Place patients with C diff in private rooms or isolate them with other patients with C diff infections.