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 ...
Gosh. Maybe I could finally be perfect at SOMETHING.
>> I think I’ll keep the job I have.
I see what you did there.
LOL
Personally I don’t give a ...
Nevermind.
My mother has been suffering from recurring C-diff for over a year. They told her that this was the next step and want to test me as a donor. Of course I pointed out that when I was a teenager my dad regularly told me he’d had enough of my sh*t. Go figure.
Or drink a little raw milk.
I’ll leave this job to the liberal arts majors.
Most of them are full of sh1t, anyway...
Apparently so...
I like the way you think.
Jeb just solved his funding issue. He has so much to give.
My mother also fought C-Diff for a while. It ended up subsiding just as we were about to make arrangements for a fecal transplant.
Ah ha! A perfect #3 something to poo.....shoot for!
40 bucks a sample. I bet the treatment “pill” cost more than that.
Awesome article. You should win a prize for the posts you generate on this thread... How do you make a shiit storm trophey?
Its gross, but if you’ve ever had C Diff, you’d be begging the doctors to give you someone else’s crap.
I hope your mother recovers soon. Best Wishes
Kind of like the “Three Little Bears” story or whatever it was. “But the third one was JUUUST right.” (Or perhaps the “turd” one in this case.)
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