[aruanan]

What other reason could there have been for posting this kind of rubbish?

Rubbish? The fecal transplant? If that, not rubbish at all. C. difficile is extremely dangerous. Following a course of antibiotics, it can take over the gut. What keeps it in check in the healthy gut is a wide variety of other gut flora, i.e. bacteria. Feces is made up of mostly bacteria, most of it alive. One bowel movement has several times more cells than there are in the entire human body. At any rate, they could probably have just used a product like Healthy Trinity to reestablish gut flora and a gut environment hostile to C. difficile.

[editor-surveyor]

"At any rate, they could probably have just used a product like Healthy Trinity to reestablish gut flora and a gut environment hostile to C. difficile."

That was exactly my point. - Why use a potentially dangerous proceedure when there are so many more effective treatments that pose no risk? - Medicine is turning itself into a joke.

[TNdandelion]

Interesting. A turd is really like....a flower bouquet. lol

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I got this bug established in my gut in 2006 after three months of powerful antibiotics. I have had several courses of Vancomycin which have not totally suppressed it. Am taking Florastor probiotic in heavy doses for months and expect that I will be on vanco again after the new Medicare D year starts. If that doesn't work, I may have to undergo this disgusting therapy. NOT looking forward to it.

[muawiyah]

I believe the scientific reason given is volume and variety.

You need the real thing, not an extract containing just a few of the critters normally in the human gut.

Back in the good old days when we lived on the floor upstairs from the livestock, this really wasn't a problem, particularly if we let the dog sleep with us.

Dogs have some variations of what we normally carry around that make their stool solid. Otherwise we'd be doing the squirts all the time like other primates.

[John S Mosby]

You’re right. Darned important. People get treated with vancomycin and then can die from difficile. I seem to recall from my horse owner friends, the use of healthy horse poo in gelatin capsules that are rectally inserted in a sick horse to repopulate its lower tract with healthy bacteria, like e.coli.
E coli outcompetes the difficile. Too bad some Freepers here don’t understand the seriousness. This treatment is difficult to admin as obvious from the story. And testing for Hepatitis, etc. is essential. Looking up Healthy Trinity.