Posted on 01/19/2011 1:24:37 PM PST by 70times7
(Reuters) - Once a year, every year, Professor Thomas Borody receives a single-stem rose from one of his most grateful patients. She is, he says, thanking him for restoring her bowel flora.
It's a distasteful cure for a problem that's increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and nursing homes, can be hard to treat with antibiotics. But Borody is one of a group of scientists who believe the answer is a faecal transplant.
Some jokily call it a "transpoosion." Others have more sciencey names like "bacteriotherapy" or "stool infusion therapy." But the process involves, frankly, replacing a person's poo with someone else's, and in the process, giving them back the "good" bugs they desperately need.
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don’t poo poo this idea.
They work better than amateur-biotics.
What can I say? You just tossed it right out there...
Tell you what, that C Dif thing is not funny. While the treatment may seem extreme, the disease itself can be life-threatening.
Why, of course they can!
How do you think Barry became the smartest man in the world after years of substandard grades and drug use?
I have used dog poo to get rid of the moles in my front yard. But they don’t have to eat it....
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