Poop transplant saves woman's life

[mercurial]

http://jezebel.com/5946543/poop-tran...es-womans-life

Poop Transplant Saves Woman’s Life
Tracie Egan Morrissey

A woman, whose life was threatened by a dangerous bacterial infection in her colon, was cured through a "fecal transplant." It is exactly as it sounds: doctors take poop from one person and then put it up another person's butt.

After 20-year-old Kaitlin Hunter was involved in a serious car accident—that involved a lower spine fracture, and the laceration of her liver and colon—she was given antibiotics to prevent an infection. A month later, she was experiencing extreme stomach pains, vomiting, and diarrhea which caused her weight to plummet to 85 pounds. Severely ill, she checked back into the hospital, where it was discovered that the bacteria clostridium difficile (C. diff) had infected her colon.

The antibiotics she had initially been given after her accident had weakened the healthy bacteria in her colon, which allowed the deadly C. diff infection—which kills about 14,000 people in the U.S. each year—to take over.

So Hunter's doctors decided to turn to the brand-new technology of fecal transplants. Her mother donated one of her stools, which was then deposited into Hunter through a colonoscopy. The donor feces recolonized the colon with new, healthy bacteria and rid her body of her C. diff infection.

According to a study published earlier this year, fecal transplants have a 91% cure rate. Doctors are now working toward developing a commercially manufactured suppository to replace the crudeness of pumping straight shit through a tube into someone's asshole. But either way, the results are beneficial.

[mercurial]

[Shallowed]

))><((

[yo soy el mejor]

it's just her mom's poop. not a big deal.

[myosis]

i wouldn't even like a transplant of my own poop

[Trotskilicious]

this thread is turning me on

[duovamp]

Oh, poop.

How juvenile.

mercurial I don't think you're taking Netphoria seriously. We need to talk.

[Eulogy]

yeah, this has been going on for a while now? lost its shock value about a year ago maybe. i was surprised jezebel was that far behind the curve.

[EyesOfAJackal]

Clostridium dificile. It's a real affliction people!

[D.]

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...2010/HiRes.jpg

[mercurial]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

yeah, this has been going on for a while now? lost its shock value about a year ago maybe. i was surprised jezebel was that far behind the curve.

Euloguy: the hipster shit-swapper

[butthurt]

lol

[D.]

Originally Posted by mercurial

Euloguy: the hipster shit-swapper

i wish this was said about me, i'd use it as a custom title

[reprise85]

yeah this is pretty cool. read it a while ago. poop is rad

[slunken]

Originally Posted by D.

i wish this was said about me, i'd use it as a custom title

just because it says hipster and not shit-swapper

[Starla]

c diff scares the hell out of me

[ella]

I know a girl whose toddler developed CDIF, poor thing has diarrhea constantly. What's very sad is that her doctor believes it was caused by overprescribing antibiotics. She took that toddler to the ER for practically everything under the sun, so I not surprised. That same mother has MRSA, and she had it last year as well?

[Ol' Couch Ass]

C-Dif is nasty. It gives poo an unmistakable creamy peanut butter type consistency and the smell is ungodly.

[mercurial]

Guys I ate quite a lot of pizza and had +\- many wines last night I think I need one of these now...

I just went to the toilet and it sounded like a load of old boots failing down the stairs

[Dead Frequency]

Haha! Great analogy

[Nimrod's Son]

[mercurial]

wow! karl connor to the thread.