Posted on 02/06/2015 8:16:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
A new case report published in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases reveals that a woman who was treated for a recurrent Clostridium difficile infection with the gut bacteria of an overweight donor quickly and unexpectedly gained weight herself following the procedure. The authors say the case suggests doctors should avoid using bacteria from overweight donors for such treatment.
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They can have all they need, just pull a semi up to the White House and haul it all away. I knew 0bama had to be good for something.
I'd love to understand this and cure my belly.
Another piece of evidence that fatness is not all - or always, anyway - due to eating too much or not moving enough.
No.
Bacteria are all over the entire intestines, especially here the large intestines. Poking a member in there isn’t going to scrub most of that tract.
No kidding. Seems like it suggests a good line of investigation.
Glad she got better. It is horrific, I understand. As a chronic gut sufferer I am always looking into possible diagnoses, especially when something really seems to go wrong.
Yes, because blood would do zero for this.
It works, by and large. When nothing else (special antibiotics, which can still kill the good bacteria and continue the cycle) seems to relieve people stuck with this pestilence.
I blame the obesity epidemic on overuse of antibiotics. The antibiotics are ruining our internal gut flora and the ones that seem to survive best are those that make you fat.
Some of that overuse of antibiotics is from doctors and some from farm animals raised on antibiotics to increase their weight before slaughter.
I don’t think bovine feces would be a viable transplant.
Those fools. There are many studies that show that some bacteria and other microorganisms, independent of everything else, cause weight gain.
Obese people have as much as 1/3rd of their intestinal flora from the Enterobacter genus, strongly associated with weight gain. Instead of 30-40 major types of bacteria. So they are some of the worst people to get a fecal transplant from.
They likely also have a lot of inflammatory agents in their digestive tract, that can result in weight gain as well as cause other autoimmune problems.
so you live for years with a gut illness that causes you nausea, diahrea, loss of appetite, vomiting, then get a cure and you are finally able to eat and keep it down and properly absorb it....and despite excercise., you join the grown up crowd of getting fat. welcome to growing older.
Sounds like this might be a treatment option for the obese. Wipe out their native gut bacteria and replace it with bacteria from a skinny person.
With all of the similarities there would be an easy explanation based on correlation when they may merely have the same bacterial imbalance.
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When I was a child, my brother, my father, and I all got duodenal ulcers. Docs at that time said it was “stress.” Mine cleared up after a PROLONGED treatment with antibiotics for my acne (which was pretty nasty). Now we know that H. pylori is usually the culprit, which dovetails nicely with my recovery after taking antibiotics for literally years. (My brother, the first to get an ulcer, got his after a prolonged stay in the hospital for another issue. Now I think he caught the H. pylori there and brought it home to the rest of us.)
Yes, we need to investigate that gut flora & fauna! A lot going on there, I think!
So what we should do is put an ad on Cregg’s list looking for bacteria from a thin person? Is that what I’m reading here? I mean, these diets are killin me.
Or it could suggest that when your gut finally stops rebelling on you you’re going to retain a lot more of the calories you eat.
Depends on how sick you are. C Diff happens when all your good bacteria have died (usually from anti-biotics which are unfortunately not that selective). Turns out the intestinal track is a lot like an aquarium, there’s stuff in there with bad names (like bacteria) that help the whole system stay in balance. And much like an aquarium a bit of “gravel transplant” can jump start the process of rebuilding the good bacteria and getting things working right again.
C.diff kills up to 43,000 people per year, a threat that is far greater than Ebola. It is a highly dangerous bacteria and very difficult to get over. There are just two drugs that will treat it and even then 20% of the those treated will have recurrence which then can become a life threatening issue. It is a major medical problem in hospitals and healthcare facilities. It is contracted primarily through anti-biotic use but is spreading rapidly by person to person contact.
Juicy bit of information here.
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