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FDA approves first pill that’s literally filled with human fecal matter
Not The Bee ^ | Apr 28, 2023 · | Staff

Posted on 04/28/2023 12:34:52 PM PDT by Red Badger

You can't even make this stuff up.

The FDA just approved a pill to fight Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) that is literally just filled with other people's poop.

C. diff is a particularly nasty bacteria that results in uncontrollable diarrhea and is responsible for 30,000 to 40,000 deaths in the United States every year.

Most cases of C. diff occur after someone has been on antibiotics for an extended period, wiping out all the naturally occurring bacteria in their gut, allowing C. diff to propagate unabated.

The new pill called Vowst has fecal matter from healthy people and is full of the helpful bacteria that the antibiotics killed off.

Compared to placebo in a double-blind trial it was pretty effective: only 12% on Vowst had C. diff reoccur versus 39% on the placebo.

That's great and all, but mainlining other people's fecal matter just seems unclean.

If I have to do it, I'd rather just have some Ezekiel bread.

Credit: The SacredSandwich


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antibiotics; beneficialbacteria; brownpill; cdiff; fecalmatter
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To: Red Badger

The bugs don’t sound so bad now, do they.


21 posted on 04/28/2023 1:16:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Red Badger

Will make for some pretty raunchy smelling (and tasting) belches, that’s for sure...


22 posted on 04/28/2023 1:23:08 PM PDT by An American in Turkiye
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To: Red Badger
There is actual science behind this. And it's sad that the way the 'science' has been bastardized with covid has caused people to laugh at this.

A stool transfer from a healthy person will cure a person with Cdiff. And stool transfers had to be done in the hospital before now.

Google "Fecal transplants C-diff" and you will be taken to various medical sites like Johns Hopkins where there are curing people of this very very difficult infection to overcome.

23 posted on 04/28/2023 1:23:43 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Red Badger

Poop injections/suppositories have been around for a long time.

It replaces the dead bacteria with the living stuff that helps you digest.


24 posted on 04/28/2023 1:57:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MtnClimber

Who thinks this is just a hoax played by libtards in the medical industry who have a bet over how many will swallow poop based on their recommendation?


I’ve had c diff infection, not fun and reoccurs. Dentist gave me an antibiotic that killed all my good bacteria.

This was new at the time and was next on the list for my solutions.


25 posted on 04/28/2023 2:08:40 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Do you remember the name of the antibiotic?


26 posted on 04/28/2023 3:01:21 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Red Badger

What a bunch of sh!t.


27 posted on 04/28/2023 3:02:07 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yes.


28 posted on 04/28/2023 4:20:46 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Red Badger

I’ll stick with probiotic yogurt, thanks.


29 posted on 04/28/2023 5:11:10 PM PDT by mumblypeg ("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
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To: Red Badger

ESAD, the sages tell us...


30 posted on 04/28/2023 6:42:36 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: AZJeep

I just read an article about babies being born via c-section, not getting the bacteria a child would receive via a vaginal birth. It was very interesting.


31 posted on 04/28/2023 6:56:42 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy

That’s interesting. I have never heard that.
But it is quite possible.
“What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“Dirty child is a healthy child. “

Making live sterile is causing a lot of problems for many.
Despite liberals always arguing for cleaner air and arguing by citing increase of asthma cases, I have read that the increase in asthma cases is mostly triggered by air too clean.
I have mild asthma and have lived in clean environment part of my live, suffering quite badly, while living in very polluted cities made me a lot better!


32 posted on 04/28/2023 7:34:37 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: AZJeep

Excess retinol contributes to allergies.


33 posted on 04/28/2023 7:35:35 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: AZJeep

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/beneficial-bacteria-can-be-restored-c-section-babies-birth


34 posted on 04/28/2023 7:44:51 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Red Badger

I’m imagining some coworkers at Pfizer getting caught in the breakroom having some nasty “sexy time” shenanigans, so they had to come up with this whole thing to prove it was “for research”.


35 posted on 04/28/2023 11:16:07 PM PDT by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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To: Red Badger

‘Thanks’ for the visual. I’m off to find some Visine to wash out my mind’s eye.


36 posted on 04/29/2023 5:10:23 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I wonder if the instructions on the label say “Do not chew.”?............... 🤦‍♂️


37 posted on 05/01/2023 5:12:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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