Re:Genova Labs 3 day Stool Test

[Guest guest]

Tasha,

My son has had the Genova test done. Its benefits for him were two-fold.

It seems to be the most accurate testing for C-diff - I could send the

sample to Genova and to a local lab, and the local lab would give a

false negative. (I believe Genova was accurately positive based on

symptoms - it's since tested negative by them after Vancomycin treatment.)

Also, it identified pathogenic bacteria and gave both prescription and

natural agents for killing them (they actually test susceptibility of

the bacteria to different things). In my son's case, all the bad guys

were susceptible to Cipro, so that's what the doctor prescribed and it

really helped his symptoms. They wouldn't allow him to stay on Cipro

long term though, because it's a broad based antibiotics, which means it

also kills the good bacteria and can allow the C-diff infection to

recur. But seeing the response to Cipro made the GI doctor have my son

then switch to sulfasalazine (the sulfa component has antibacterial

properties without being broad spectrum, so no C-diff issue) and that

has been working well.

Sally