Some more info...wait, more of a rant!

There are two tests they have taken for C-diff....you know I cant hold this in any longer! Its time to state this as it is perceived. C-diff takes usually three separate tests to find. One has already come back negative we are waiting on the second. We do not know for sure if she has it? Dr. Jackson the Gastroenterologist who is very well known thinks it is a strong possibility. Almost two weeks ago Jada had a rash. Her normal PED. wasnt in the office, so we opted to go to our general practitioner...lesson 1 learned... he called a fellow dermatologist and they felt like the rash may be Scarlet Fever (Scarlet Fever and Scarletina are the same thing. Often Scarlet Fever is used to define untreated Scarletina. At the point of diagnosis what was thought may be scarletina had not been treated, and therefore is being referred to as Scarlet Fever). Hind sight is 20/20, and Doctors mean well, but we as parents should not have allowed him to put Jada Rose on anti-biotics for something that had no laboratory proof. In reading about c-diff (which we still don't know if she has or not) I read the following

Antibiotic Use – We all know that antibiotics are used to kill bacteria that are causing infection somewhere in the body. At the same time, the antibiotic can kill the “good” bacteria in the GI tract, allowing the “bad” bacteria such as C. diff to grow unchecked, producing the toxins that cause severe diarrhea. Some estimates say that about 90 percent of all health care associated C. diff is related to broad spectrum antibiotic use. - ---http://aids.about.com/od/otherconditions/a/cdiff.htm---

Well thats just Fan @#$%#$# tastic!

Lesson 2 learned!

Now in all honesty we don't yet know that this is what she has? But the possibility of such a thing that could have been prevented is very scary. So this post isn't so much to point fingers at people but rather in hopes that it can help educate people not to allow their doc's to put them and/or their kids on anti-biotic unless it is certain that they have what is presumed. If she had Scarlet Fever it would be a very wise thing to put her on anti-biotic as it is a serious condition that would warrant fast action. So theres my brief rant for now. Hopefully in a day or two I will be apologizing for jumping to presumptions. Until then understand that I'm a pretty worried dad and take my post with a grain of salt. ;)