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).”]
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well...I think I’ll keep the job I have.
no sh*t?
Big big supply available for free at DNC and RNC. They grind it out 24/7/365.
Stop by there, the blood bank and the sperm bank you’d have a good day.
Livin’ the dream.
So, eat s%&^ and live?
Looks like we really might have been flushing money down the toilet!
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.
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.
Better to give than to receive. But both are still better than to inspect.
Been eatin’ some corn, huh?
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....
Donating poop would be OK, I guess.
But being the Poop Rater????
(Lumpy, Mushy, Watery?)
Not for a million bucks.
lol!
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.
What a crappy post!
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
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