Don't poo-poo technique: Fecal transplant can cure superbug, doctors say

cbc dot ca ^ | 12-2008

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Calling all stool donors...

[lightman]

I’ll bet there are some pre-verts in SanFran who would do the fudge packing for free.

[aruanan]

What other reason could there have been for posting this kind of rubbish?

Rubbish? The fecal transplant? If that, not rubbish at all. C. difficile is extremely dangerous. Following a course of antibiotics, it can take over the gut. What keeps it in check in the healthy gut is a wide variety of other gut flora, i.e. bacteria. Feces is made up of mostly bacteria, most of it alive. One bowel movement has several times more cells than there are in the entire human body. At any rate, they could probably have just used a product like Healthy Trinity to reestablish gut flora and a gut environment hostile to C. difficile.

[El Sordo]

I am unclear as to why they can just... go the other way...

[I see my hands]

To: Barney Frank

We regret to inform you the slots for the clinical trials have been filled. Thank you for your enthusiastic interest in medical research.

[editor-surveyor]

"At any rate, they could probably have just used a product like Healthy Trinity to reestablish gut flora and a gut environment hostile to C. difficile."

That was exactly my point. - Why use a potentially dangerous proceedure when there are so many more effective treatments that pose no risk? - Medicine is turning itself into a joke.

[MaxMax]

We’ll take this Poo, and mix it with that Poo, and stick it where you Poo.

[TNdandelion]

Interesting. A turd is really like....a flower bouquet. lol

[going hot]

gives whole new meaning to eat sh*t and er...live?

[BufordP]

Poop.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, folks.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

[Grizzled Bear]

I was terrified that I was going to be asked to have my luggage searched," she said.

Two baggage handlers stealing from luggage:

#1 - I found me a nice watch and a DVD Player. What you got?

#2 - I found some...what the...AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!

[jacquej]

This is definitely a thread you can send to your friends and relatives with an “OH, CR@P” in the subject line!

[neverdem]

I don’t believe C. Diff. is a superbug in the traditional use of the word. As far as I know, it’s still not resistant to Flagyl or Vanco.

If it's still sensitive to Flagyl and Vancomycin, it's normal C. Difficile.

[al baby]

Sounds better than my MIL cooking

[Osage Orange]

The procedure....has been around for quite some time now.

I've heard that in some pts. it was the only thing that helped them.....

[Zechariah_8_13]

Medicine is turning itself into a joke.

You mean like how the chicken pox vax is causing shingles in otherwise unheard of populations (like toddlers), so pharma is now developing a shingles vax?

Pharma doesn't make money off of healthy people.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I got this bug established in my gut in 2006 after three months of powerful antibiotics. I have had several courses of Vancomycin which have not totally suppressed it. Am taking Florastor probiotic in heavy doses for months and expect that I will be on vanco again after the new Medicare D year starts. If that doesn't work, I may have to undergo this disgusting therapy. NOT looking forward to it.

[muawiyah]

I believe the scientific reason given is volume and variety.

You need the real thing, not an extract containing just a few of the critters normally in the human gut.

Back in the good old days when we lived on the floor upstairs from the livestock, this really wasn't a problem, particularly if we let the dog sleep with us.

Dogs have some variations of what we normally carry around that make their stool solid. Otherwise we'd be doing the squirts all the time like other primates.