Check out this story. I guess if it works, it is well worth it.
By JoNel Aleccia
Before she got so sick with a Clostridium difficile infection, Vicki Doriott would have been as disgusted as anyone at the idea of a fecal transplant.
Infuse her gut with someone else’s stool? Through a tube in her nose? No, thanks.
But in June 2004, Doriott was actually relieved to show up at a Duluth, Minn., clinic, where doctors sent samples of her husband’s excrement sliding into her stomach – and apparently cured the infection that threatened to ruin her life.
“When those toxins are in your body, you kind of feel like you’re close to death,” said Doriott, 50, an accountant from Eau Claire, Wis., who spent nearly six months battling recurrent bouts of the nasty intestinal bug known as C. diff. “Nothing else I tried worked.”
Perhaps in the future they can culture some of the good bugs and encase them in enteric-coated capsules for better palatability and more reliable delivery to the intended target area. I imagine any burping for a while after the "transplant" must have been quite unbearable.
I cannot imagine it but I have taken care of many many people with Cdiff and I know it is very bad. And if it worked, I would do it.Also remember, as a patient in the hospital, especially those of us that AI disease..those hand sanitizers do not kill Cdiff, only antibacterial soap does. So if your nurse walks into your room and only sanitizes her hands with the rub on, she could be infecting you with Cdiff if the patient next door has it.
the theory is the spouse has been exposed to the same strain of cdiff as the patient and has antibodies against it.
I saw that on a episode of House!
[QUOTE=buckeye]the theory is the spouse has been exposed to the same strain of cdiff as the patient and has antibodies against it.
I saw that on a episode of House!
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