Eat s--t and die live
Trials in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach.
They're finding that our guts have all kinds of freiendly stuff in them which must not be wiped out by antibiotics. So this might well work. OTOH, it's not the most appetizing notion, is it?
Comments
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: October 14, 2007 11:04 PM
That's what probiotics are all about, Activia and all the rest. Although I can't wait to see some pharma company try to patent feces. The ads will probably make me pine for Viva the V-pill.
(The spam filter won't let me include the actual name in my comment.)
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: October 15, 2007 08:27 AM
Sorry about that -- it's a global thing, out of my control. I get enough comment spam as it is. Given that this has to be the feces of a close relative, I doubt it's ever going to be on the airwaves. I actually paid attention to an ad for a new drug for diabetes last night -- enough to decide that I didn't want it. "Ask your doctor about this new drug; side effects include projectile diarrhea, psychosis, and permanent facial warts. but it cures the common cold."