Has anyone ever heard of this and is Flagyl the only antibiotic that will cure it or does a person have to be hospitalized to be able to get the IV's that the report says you must have. Can those drugs be given orally?

Flagyl can be given orally.So can vancomycin but usually vanco is IV.No,most people can be treated at home for e coli as long as they are not dehydrated.

Shirley, Do you mean VRE Vancomycin resistant enterococcus. This is spread usually in hospitals and lives in genital tracts etc. (and I THINK digestive tracts as well...but not sure) If a patient gets VRE, they are usually isolated. I don't know about the treatment....I didn't think there was one as Vancomycin doesn't work anymore (hence the name). My Dad had VRE and MRSA (Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) which he caught in the hospital. He was put in an isolated room after he got it from another patient (probably patient-nurse-patient contact)and unfortunately died without ever getting better. It was a horrible lonely time (9 months)! He told me they had put him in that room to die! He couldn't get out of bed and the hospital meal delivery staff wouldn't go in the room..they left his meal tray outside the door!!!!! He would have starved if we hadn't been there to get the food to him...as it was, it was cold a lot of times! We had to wear gowns, gloves and masks...it APPARENTLY doesn't harm healthy people but healthy people can be carriers! They wanted him to go to an assisted living place but that became a viscious circle because no one would take him because of the VRE and MRSA that he should never have had! The name in your title...I don't know of that....

This is in respomse to sorefootsophie:My mom and uncle had nasty nosocomial infections as well.Both died but we were all allowed to go see them and they were not isolated.That was my expereience.I am so sorry about your dad.It must have been horrible.I know as I saw my mother and uncle die.Oops,almost forgot another person who had a bad hospital infection...me(my WBCs went to 35K).Those are nasty.Again you have my sympathy.

Thanks John. Whats a pod doing on the bowels board? We were allowed in to my Dad's room too and spent as much time as possible with him....he HATED being alone! I sometimes wonder to this day if I now carry VRE or MRSA. Not sure how that works but I was told it doesn't affect healthy people.The nurses were great too for the most part. The biggest problem was the food delivery and the cleaning crews!

Sorry to hijack your thread Shirley but I see John answered your question.

Thanks to all who answered my question. My husband is doing better this morning. We went the ER last Monday and they gave him Flagyl and his diarrhea stopped. It was diagnosed as Vancomycin Resistant E. Coli acquired from Antibiotics given while he was in the hospital with Pnuemonia. He was given Ceftriaxone and later Cipro. The doctor ignored my calls to his office for help with my husband until the Health Care Nurse sent in a stool culture and he got the report, and then he called to ask how my husband was doing. He had had the diarrhea a month. Needless to say we are changing doctors on the 18th. The new one may not be any better but at least he couldn't be any worse.

I think you have found - You have to be very Pro Active with your Health!!
Good For You~~~Harry