Fear not, sufferers of
C. diff: your antibiotic-resisting, potentially crippling-death-by-diarrhea superbug can be treated!
Here's the rub -- you need a close relative (preferably one who does not have an insatiable fondness for six-cheese Hot Pockets) to save several days worth of his or her excrement for your doctor, who will in turn shoehorn your relative's liquefied colon chum into your tortured shitlocker for an overnight stay. It's a mud transfusion that pits your relative's healthy stool bacteria against the infectious bacteria for what promises to be an epic, watery naval battle in your intestinal tract!
"Though C. difficile can be kept in check by good bacteria in the bowel," says the CBC, "problems can arise when the superbug is treated by antibiotics such as vancomycin. The antibiotics sometimes wipe out the good bacteria but fail to completely kill the C. difficile — leaving enough of it that it later flourishes."
"Fecal transplants have become the first-line treatment for chronic recurrent C. difficile in Scandinavia. As well, more and more doctors are using it in the United States. But only a handful of doctors in Canada are willing to undertake the unpleasant procedure which involves taking a healthy person's fecal matter and transplanting it into a person infected with C. difficile."
While this procedure kinda gives "runs in the family" a whole new meaning", it does boast a 90% success rate. So if someone close to you is suffering from this debilitating affliction, give the gift of life: become a grogan donor today.