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'Poop Transplants' May Combat Bacterial Infections
Yahoo ^ | 10/20/12 | Karen Rowan

Posted on 10/20/2012 6:36:10 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton

"Poop transplants" are an effective way to treat people with one type of intestinal bacteria infection, a new study shows.

Researchers transplanted fecal matter from healthy people into the colons of people infected with the notoriously hard-to-treat Clostridium difficile bacteria, which causes severe, watery diarrhea. The researchers found that 46 out of 49 patients got better within a week of the treatment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donor; feces; medicine; poop
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To: pelicandriver

I knew it had been in South America for a long time, but didn’t know that about the US. Any particular part of the country?


41 posted on 10/20/2012 8:25:03 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: Uncle Slayton

um... I guess gay men are safe then. lol


42 posted on 10/20/2012 8:32:04 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Uncle Slayton

i would dare say a weeks’ worth of decent probiotic supplementation would do just as well. it’s just trying to get good bacteria to regain a foothold and balance over the bad bacteria that’s currently overrunnng the bowels.


43 posted on 10/20/2012 8:38:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

I want to know who came up with the idea. “Hey Bob, let’s take some sh** from this guy and shove...”


44 posted on 10/20/2012 8:42:08 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

unping


45 posted on 10/20/2012 8:49:57 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Donors wanted. Apply inside.


46 posted on 10/20/2012 9:23:12 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty
Joking aside, c. diff. is an evil little b*st*rd. Better a poop enema than a pine box.
47 posted on 10/20/2012 9:23:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

))<>((


48 posted on 10/20/2012 9:26:45 PM PDT by Squeako (The radicals are the wolves. The moderates are the wolves in sheep's clothing.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

I’m not taking any s*** from anybody!


49 posted on 10/20/2012 9:44:03 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Doogle

Did we pass a gas station?
No, but the fox did, sqeeze him right here,
maybe he’ll pass another one...

Waiting for the Electrician or someone like him.
I think or it could have been
Don’t Crush that dwarf, hand ME the pliers!


50 posted on 10/20/2012 11:03:01 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Gays transplant poop all the time and get aids.

This is not it at all. Think for a moment.

51 posted on 10/20/2012 11:47:15 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Uncle Slayton

Do we get paid for donating a healthy one?

Or do we just get the tee shirt that reads: “I give a shit.”


52 posted on 10/21/2012 12:14:06 AM PDT by proudpapa
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To: Uncle Slayton

It was either on “Bazaar Food” or “No Reservations” or some other weird show where they went somewhere where the men made a practice of eating you know what. I don’t think the show host went along with that one, though.


53 posted on 10/21/2012 12:35:01 AM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

So San Francisco should be the healthiest city in America?????


54 posted on 10/21/2012 4:26:22 AM PDT by mortdecai
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To: Uncle Slayton
transplanted fecal matter from healthy people into the colons of people

Now I wonder who came up with THAT idea..........Probably the same dude who first licked a toad to see if he could get high.

55 posted on 10/21/2012 4:31:14 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Jab him with a harpoon.....)
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To: James C. Bennett

I am aware of at least one medical facility doing this back in the 80’s.

There’s an urban legend about a physician treating C. dif infections in the 60’s with fecal milk shakes.


56 posted on 10/21/2012 6:41:34 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Yogurt is great and is helpful with general gut health but if it can replace beneficial coloform bacteria in your gut, they have some QA problems at the plant.

The fecal transplant carries bugs such as E. coli, essential to gut health but forbidden in food and drink by regulation.


57 posted on 10/21/2012 6:47:21 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Your probiotics cannot replace all of the normal fecal bacteria, unless they have major sanitation problems at the plant.


58 posted on 10/21/2012 6:58:33 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It’s not as easy as eating a source of the necessary bugs, as the stomach will kill them with acid before they get to the gut.

I didn't mean to imply that it was. Yes, vanco and also Flagyl IIRC are used on C.Diff....the "transplanted" stool-product would hopefully reintroduce the needed bacteria.

I think we are agreeing here....right?

59 posted on 10/21/2012 7:55:40 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: dangerdoc

The gut contains some 300-1000 different types of bacteria, but only 30-40 of these predominate, that is, take up most of the physical space. And a lack of physical space is key to keeping down the already present harmful and antibiotic resistant bacteria.

E. coli is one of this group of 30-40, but it has many subtypes, some of which are beneficial or neutral, and some of which are toxic or harmful. So it is not a particularly good probiotic. If there is a problem with other flora, an excess of E. coli leans toward the harmful side of the equation.

But that still leaves some 29-39 other types of bacteria, a large number of which are both commonly found in food and are generally regarded as safe, such as lactobacillus acidophalus, which are commonly added to milk products to make them probiotic.

Again, here is the list of those bacteria and yeasts typically found in Kefir.

http://www.culturesforhealth.com/milk-kefir-grains-composition-bacteria-yeast

Since these are generally regarded as safe, and some are beneficial, this is a good way to replenish the physical space in the GI tract which may have an insufficient number of helpful bacteria to keep out the bad bacteria.

E. coli is ubiquitous, so it can take care of itself.


60 posted on 10/21/2012 9:54:57 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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