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Faecal transplants?

RemadERemadE Global Moderator
edited December 2011 in Spurious Generalities
Never would have thought of this, but turns out it works! The faecal matter is used to rebalance levels of bacteria in the gut of the host.
Whatever works. It's only poop!
Transplanting faecal matter from one person to another - the thought might turn your stomach, but it could be lifesaving.

Some doctors are using the procedure to repopulate the gut with healthy bacteria, which can become unbalanced in some diseases.

Dr Alisdair MacConnachie, who thinks he is the only UK doctor to carry out the procedure for Clostridium difficle infection, describes it as a proven treatment.

He says it should be used, but only as a treatment of last resort.

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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited December 2011
    This has been done for years in Holland. All they do is put a feeding tube in and put he blitzed shit down it. I would not even call it an operation! The artical does make me laugh tho - how it says although it has a 90% success rate, it is not widley adopted as it has not had a randomised clinical trial and is still theory. Much, of medicine is based on unproven theory - lipid theory as a cause of heart disease for example.

    It will probably not become common place, as shit is free, where as drugs cost money, and the solution that costs money must be best.
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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited December 2011
    shit transplant
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