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Fecal transplants: pooper plugs cure super bug!

Posted 11.29.2007 by Gasputin
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.

Show some poop support, or make a poop retort.
dookie monster (25) -- 11.30.2007

my question is: how does the D/BMV mark your driver's license? with a brown heart? perhaps with a funnel leading into the top?


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RoboCrap13 (391) -- 11.30.2007

They turn the heart upside down and cut off the point.
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You have the right to remain Silent but Deadly....

Anomalous Coward (690) -- 11.30.2007

My mother always told me to share my shit with my brother. Damn, I didn't know she meant this.

Deja Poo (649) -- 11.30.2007

How do you tell your employer that you need the day off because you've got a drug-resistant bacteria living in your bowels and you need a shit transplant?
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Gasputin (145) -- 11.30.2007

Another cause for concern-imagine the donor's humiliation if the host's colon rejected the transplant.

daphne (3667) -- 12.01.2007

What are you talking about? My colon rejects its contents daily. A transplant would be no different!


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Bilgepump (1731) -- 12.01.2007

Radiation and chemo killed all the good stuff in my dad too...he suffered from C. Diff til the end...made my job that much more labor intensive...I won't say harder, because caring for my dad was the easiest thing I've ever done, in hindsight.

Hieronymous Bowels (124) -- 12.01.2007

"We just have to run some tests to make sure you both have the same fecal type."

Mary Queen of Scats (387) -- 12.05.2007

Really puts that debate about sitting in someone else's butt-heat on a toilet seat in perspective.

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Merry feeking Christmas and a crappy New Year to all!

Craptastic (6) -- 01.07.2008

That is awesome on so many levels! : D

T.Lee (not verified) -- 07.29.2008



I've suffered for many months with c-diff and
am still on Vancomycin. I need a doctor
in the U.S. that will do this transplant.
Does anyone know of one and where they might be located?

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 08.10.2008

I have had c diff many times,not fun now the Dr.s put meon so many antibiotics it really wiped me out so now I am dealing with yeast does anyoneknow if it will work on that! I'll try anything if poop works bring it on!!!!
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LeandraCullen (389) -- 08.10.2008

I'm sorry for saying this, but that was funny and disgusting at the same time.
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I will never shit somewhere that only has that horrible, scratchy brand of toilet paper. That stuff sucks!

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