'Poop' pills can treat C. difficile, Calgary doctor says
Who would ever receive, in one's own GI tract, fecal material "donated" from someone else? Well, this may actually be a medical treatment soon.
Brace yourselves. Comics are going to have a ball with the poop transplant being developed by a team led by a doctor from Canada.
Here's the problem. Patients who receive antibiotics often suffer from an infection by Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile for short. Why? The antibiotics kill all the "good" bacteria in the gut, allowing C. difficile to thrive. And a C. difficile infection is bad news; it can cause extreme misery and can kill some patients.
But if your gut gets an infusion of the "good" bacteria, the "good" bacteria will fight the C. difficile infection. And here's the straight poop: you get the "good" bacteria from the stool of a relative. The stool is processed so that the waste is removed and the "good" bacteria remain. The bacteria can be transplanted in a number of ways, such as by pill or by enema. One of the doctors who does the fecal transplants says that there is an "ick factor," but the patients who spend hours on the toilet crapping out their guts due to a C. difficile infection get past it very quickly.
As I said, we can expect a lot of infantile jokes in the next few days: these doctors are also working on an appendix transplant; if you want to eat crap, just eat at Denny's; Canada is going to form a "poop bank"; etc., etc.
Who would ever receive, in one's own GI tract, fecal material "donated" from someone else? Well, this may actually be a medical treatment soon.
Brace yourselves. Comics are going to have a ball with the poop transplant being developed by a team led by a doctor from Canada.
Here's the problem. Patients who receive antibiotics often suffer from an infection by Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile for short. Why? The antibiotics kill all the "good" bacteria in the gut, allowing C. difficile to thrive. And a C. difficile infection is bad news; it can cause extreme misery and can kill some patients.
But if your gut gets an infusion of the "good" bacteria, the "good" bacteria will fight the C. difficile infection. And here's the straight poop: you get the "good" bacteria from the stool of a relative. The stool is processed so that the waste is removed and the "good" bacteria remain. The bacteria can be transplanted in a number of ways, such as by pill or by enema. One of the doctors who does the fecal transplants says that there is an "ick factor," but the patients who spend hours on the toilet crapping out their guts due to a C. difficile infection get past it very quickly.
As I said, we can expect a lot of infantile jokes in the next few days: these doctors are also working on an appendix transplant; if you want to eat crap, just eat at Denny's; Canada is going to form a "poop bank"; etc., etc.
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