C Diff - a treatment

[whitedesire]

On "Embarrassing Bodies" last night, a UK programme, if one is unlucky to get this horrible bug which is generally caught in hospitals and by over use of antibiotics, there is a treatment known as "stool transplant", where a close relative provides a stool and it is mixed up with saline or milk then given by tube (there are other ways, but tube was the one they shown) via your nose to your stomach. It has a 90% efficacy rate.


"Stool transplant
Fecal bacteriotherapy, known in colloquial terms as stool transplant, a procedure related to probiotic research, has preliminarily been shown to cure the disease. It involves infusion of bacterial flora acquired from the feces of a healthy donor to reverse the bacterial imbalance responsible for the recurring nature of the infection. In fecal transplantation, donor stool is collected from a close relative who has been tested for a wide array of bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens. The stool is often mixed with saline or milk to achieve the desired consistency, then delivered through a colonoscope or retention enema, or through a nasogastric or nasoduodenal tube. The procedure replaces normal, healthy colonic flora that had been wiped out by antibiotics, and reestablishes the patient's resistance to colonization by Clostridium difficile. However, there is often patient resistance due to the perceived unpleasantness of the procedure that must be overcome first before proceeding with this often-effective treatment.
There are currently over 150 published reports dating back to 1958, though many more have been performed. It has a success rate of about 90%. A guide was released in 2010 for home fecal transplantation."

[windwalker]

Perhaps rimming would serve the same effect?

[Gaybutton]

Sorry guys, but the last thing I need is to start up these "poo" threads again.

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