Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) on 07/28/2011
The cause of clostridium difficile was the widespread use of alcohol hand wash used in hospitals as it eliminates certain beneficial bacteria in check, while c. difficile is resistant against alcohol based hand washing. That leaves them free to spread. There are better alcohol based ones but you can forget what they used in hospitals, they don't kill MRSA and C. difficile. The second issue is the widespread use of certain antibiotics, that leaves beneficial bacterial that without proper controls c. difficile. I won't go to these explanations, doctors may have better qualified to answer that. The other one is the most effective controls of c. difficile is actually ozone and they are phasing that out in hospitals.
So the basic treatment is ozone rectally, and hydrogen peroxide 3% in one or two capfuls per liter of water in all drinking water. Lavender oil rectally and orally (1-2 drops) helps for now. I don't know for sure, but I think that pH alkalinity discourages growth of these things (it will reduce cytoxicity of B toxin at least), so you can try baking soda mixed into the liter of water, say 1/2 teaspoon. You can try both water and alkaline mix and just see the difference. Doctors should know about the optimum growing temperature of C. difficle, and it's not your pH!
I will get back to you if I get more information, pressing things right now.
Ted
