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Here’s what it takes to be the perfect poop donor
Washington Post ^ | 9-1-2015 | Rachel Feltman

Posted on 09/01/2015 10:26:49 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

You can earn $13,000 a year by donating your poop.

A few months back, we wrote about OpenBiome, a company that provides therapeutic fecal matter. In case you missed that post, here's the general idea: For people with a devastating (and sometimes fatal) infection called C. difficile, a fecal matter transplant (FMT) can be a real life-saver. By putting healthy fecal matter into the patient (by way of oral tablets or colonoscopy), doctors can effectively seed their guts with the healthy bacteria they need to fight off the infection. For people who've failed to thrive on traditional treatments like antibiotics, the transplant -- while gross -- seems miraculous.

Now CNN has followed one of these noble poop donors through his daily routine.

"I had no idea,” Eric told CNN of his poop. “It turns out that it’s fairly close to perfect.”

But getting a clean bill of health isn't enough: Eric's donations, which earn him $40 a sample, need to follow certain guidelines. Consistency guidelines. From CNN:

[Types one or two, defined by the Bristol Stool Chart as “like nuts” or “lumpy,” are too dry to process into a treatment.

If a donor’s stool is “mushy” or “watery” — that’s a type six or seven — then it can’t be used because it could be a sign the donor has a gastrointestinal infection.

The perfect poop is type three, which is “like a sausage but with cracks on its surface;” type four, which is “like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft;” or type five, “soft blobs with clear-cut edges (passed easily).”]

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Earn $13,000 with this weird trick.
1 posted on 09/01/2015 10:26:49 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Well...I think I’ll keep the job I have.


2 posted on 09/01/2015 10:27:44 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: SamAdams76

no sh*t?


3 posted on 09/01/2015 10:29:00 AM PDT by brivette
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To: Citizen Zed

Big big supply available for free at DNC and RNC. They grind it out 24/7/365.


4 posted on 09/01/2015 10:29:45 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Citizen Zed

Stop by there, the blood bank and the sperm bank you’d have a good day.


5 posted on 09/01/2015 10:30:03 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Livin’ the dream.


6 posted on 09/01/2015 10:31:50 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Citizen Zed
By putting healthy fecal matter into the patient (by way of oral tablets or colonoscopy), doctors can effectively seed their guts with the healthy bacteria they need to fight off the infection. For people who've failed to thrive on traditional treatments like antibiotics, the transplant -- while gross -- seems miraculous.

So, eat s%&^ and live?

7 posted on 09/01/2015 10:39:34 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Citizen Zed

Looks like we really might have been flushing money down the toilet!


8 posted on 09/01/2015 10:40:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Citizen Zed

Well, the next time the RNC asks for a donation,I’ll check the $40 box and mail in my donation. Why, I might even become a monthly subscriber.


9 posted on 09/01/2015 10:47:08 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Citizen Zed

If the treatment works, it would be welcome to people who have to deal with this. My late father-in-law had Alzheimers and picked up C. diff. during a hospital stay. He was bedfast and my wife was his caregiver, and this infection gave her one helluva mess to deal with. She eventually convinced the doctor to have her father take a regular low dose of a certain antibiotic, and that controlled it.


10 posted on 09/01/2015 10:47:31 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Better to give than to receive. But both are still better than to inspect.


11 posted on 09/01/2015 10:50:55 AM PDT by jjsheridan5 (... but they have to go)
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To: Citizen Zed

Been eatin’ some corn, huh?


12 posted on 09/01/2015 10:51:50 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: dainbramaged
Sometimes he's nutty, sometimes he's corny!


13 posted on 09/01/2015 10:56:24 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Like the old joke:

A guy walks into the doctors office and Doctor tells him he needs a stool sample, a urine sample, and a semen sample. So the guy hands him his underwear....


14 posted on 09/01/2015 10:57:20 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Slings and Arrows

Donating poop would be OK, I guess.

But being the Poop Rater????

(Lumpy, Mushy, Watery?)

Not for a million bucks.


15 posted on 09/01/2015 10:57:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: SoothingDave

lol!


16 posted on 09/01/2015 10:58:52 AM PDT by brivette
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To: Citizen Zed

I know a woman who is considering taking this pill, as nothing else has worked. It really is awful, since she is afraid to eat just about anything.


17 posted on 09/01/2015 10:58:53 AM PDT by lacrew
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Most of us should already be immune. We've been eating shit from these two and most of their buds for decades!  photo Boehner-Mitch-3_Martini-Lunch TEAPARTY_zps22bwdv1n.jpg
18 posted on 09/01/2015 11:05:25 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Citizen Zed

What a crappy post!


19 posted on 09/01/2015 11:07:14 AM PDT by dware (Trump/Cruz 2016, or get ready for 8 more dummycrat years)
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To: lacrew
odd how this popped up - my wife was just telling me about her gf's sister - she has cdiff and they are going to do this.....we both let out a collective eewwww

Rabbits do the same thing. We had several who were on antibiotics, and we'd have to repopulate the gut with another rabbits poop...mix it with banana....deelish

20 posted on 09/01/2015 11:08:31 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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