Starrfall on 10/11/2010 at 02:25
It's (
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/57795/) true, to the amusement and delight of all!
Idea is that the beneficial microbes in the intestines of a healthy person can help fight off certain gastrointestinal problems in a sick person. In other words, if you have shitty poo and it's making you sick, you're gonna need some non-shitty poo.
As you can imagine, there are only so many ways to deliver poo to the lower intestine. They could have picked a worse route, but it still ends up sounding like some weird ass medically-themed scat porn.
Quote:
Borody did his first fecal transplant back in the mid 1980s, when he was confronted with one of the most difficult cases he had seen at the time: a woman who had vacationed at Fiji and had developed an incurable colitis through an unknown pathogen.
While searching the literature for alternative treatments, he stumbled upon a paper published in 1958 in the journal Surgery that described four cases in which a similar condition was cured by infusing the inflamed guts of the patients with fecal samples from healthy donors. "So I looked at the method and I kind of made up the rest of it," Borody said.
He collected stool from the woman's brother, and after screening it for known pathogens, he stuck it in a blender, added some brine, and filtered it to get rid of any undigested material.
The stool, now turned into slush, was administered to the patient — who had her gastrointestinal tract previously flushed — via two enemas over the course of two days.
The results were nothing short of surprising, Borody said. Within days her colitis was gone, never to return.
Isn't the world a wonderful place?
Pardoner on 10/11/2010 at 03:01
Interesting. I wonder if it would be possible to resolve other gut phenomena with this method, such as pseudo-obstructions or volvulus (volvuli?). I doubt that shifts in bowel fauna composition are causative of physical displacement or gross dysfunction but perhaps the medically minded (DDL?) will be able to better inform us. It's not hard to see why the composition of gut microbiota is such a topic of interest among researchers, considering the potentially broad impact on general health demonstrated in the article.
fett on 10/11/2010 at 03:37
I figured this was going to be a comedic review of that Caterpillar movie.
SubJeff on 10/11/2010 at 07:02
Pardoner - volvulus, no. It's a physical cause so microbes aren't going to make any difference. Pseudo-obstruction possibly. Depends on the cause of the pseudo-obstruction of course!
Turtle on 11/11/2010 at 01:27
))<>((
Back and forth, forever.
Tocky on 11/11/2010 at 03:05
I thought yogart gave you the good bugs.
Perhaps I need a transplant with less healthy microbes not quite so active in the production of poisonous gas. Mine have decided to wage a war of total anihilation on the unseen world of outsiders. I'm unclear what we did to them but I'm willing to make an unconditional surrender nonetheless.
Muzman on 11/11/2010 at 16:27
I'm reminded of an interview I heard with a guy who was curing his hay fever (I think) and some other auto immune conditions by getting his intestinal worms back. He was then selling them in tablet form by mail to people so they could get the same results.
However he didn't have that many takers and that did seem odd until he said (roughly) "I don't understand it. It's the simplest of things I'm offering and you can be free of these, at least, inconvenient conditions. I mean, I produce millions of these things every day..."
Martin Karne on 11/11/2010 at 19:25
Urgent, Transplant of shit on room 7, fast!
Eat shit and live?
