If that’s the best medicine then Obamacare is going to make us all very, very healthy indeed.
No matter how ya slice it or dice it, still sounds like a sh!t sammich to me. =D
Ah. Another valuable social service being provided daily by male homosexuals.
Eat sh*t and live, in other words.
My boss had a C. diff infection. Dang near killed him.
Some tears back I was talking with my VA doc, just in general terms, about the off-the-wall stuff nurses/doctors had to do in certain cases. She told me of this procedure, I will tell you my hair curled.
Later on I talked with my niece, who was just entering the profession, and some of the stuff she told me she had to do gave me an Afro - and I don’t feel that I have led a sheltered life.
My mother has had 3 consecutive C. Diff infections. But she is very old and faces a host of other problems, including paralysis. I only heard of these “fecal transplants” with these consecutive infections - haven’t gone that route yet. These C. Diff infections sure are persistent.
I remember reading “ The Making of a Surgeon”.
In it the young resident recounts how they got the idea of replacing the patients gut flora with an ahem “ fecal milkshake”. Took a small amount and put it in the blender with milk etc, and fed it to the unsuspecting patient.
When they told the attending physician about it on Monday he nearly killed them....
I take it that the good bacteria in normal stool kills the c. diff?
I wonder if they could use baby poop. It seems like babies would be less likely to carry diseases...
Can we transplant some of Dick Cheney’s fecal matter into Obama? Maybe a fecal transplant would give him a backbone or a set of gonads.
Never heard of this one! The stuff you learn on FR, remarkable!
A few twists and turns to this.
Probiotic bacteria are almost exclusively aerobic, needing oxygen to live, which means they work almost entirely in the upper GI tract.
Fecal bacteria are almost exclusively anaerobic, meaning that oxygen will kill them. But this also means that they are difficult to get into the lower GI and colon.
However, early experiments with fecal transplant were done with what was called “chocolate shake”, which literally was a chocolate shake with a fresh fecal sample added to it, that would get “far enough south” to be out of the high oxygen parts of the GI tract.
Also importantly, the anaerobic bacteria, while good, or even very good, in the lower GI tract and colon, can be very toxic in about any other part of the body.
Add to this that a large part of the staff of the FDA, and the USDA, for that matter, are exceedingly bacteriophobic, meaning that they are scared of any bacteria, and find it hard to imagine that any bacteria could be “good”, much preferring sterility in all things.
As far as the intestinal flora itself, while it typically has between 300-1000 different kinds of bacteria in it, usually only 30-40 take up almost all of the available space.
Science is only beginning to get a grasp on how these bacteria, and the other microorganisms: viruses, fungi, amoebas, parasites, etc. interact with each other and our immune systems. But the bottom line is that they are just as much a part of us as our own cells.
"Don't use any old feces from a friend or relative. Who knows what they're up to? Buy ACME's disease-free, special-diet-fed, guaranteed miracle crap!"
It's on my business card.
Wow.
Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the question “do you give a sh!t?”
The ladies do a similar thing involving tampons........