I have always assumed that routine stool cultures would find and identify certain types of bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites that are causing infections or diseases.
However, looking back at my daughters previous stool cultures, it was only negative for a specific bacteria; this was what the result said:
Negative for shiga toxins 1 and 2. Shiga toxin NOT detected by immunoassay, suggesting that a Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Not present.
Does anyone have more info about stool cultures and why we are not checking IBD patients for every bacteria/parasite of fungus that could be causing the inflammation?
It just seems like if we are only testing for one or two, that could be there, we are leaving out so many others. since we would normally treat any found, such as C.Diff, should we not consider the fact that each IBD patient has a good chance of a bad bacteria causing problems...
However, looking back at my daughters previous stool cultures, it was only negative for a specific bacteria; this was what the result said:
Negative for shiga toxins 1 and 2. Shiga toxin NOT detected by immunoassay, suggesting that a Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Not present.
Does anyone have more info about stool cultures and why we are not checking IBD patients for every bacteria/parasite of fungus that could be causing the inflammation?
It just seems like if we are only testing for one or two, that could be there, we are leaving out so many others. since we would normally treat any found, such as C.Diff, should we not consider the fact that each IBD patient has a good chance of a bad bacteria causing problems...