Gross Medical Procedure I learned about today. Don't open

[lukethedrifter]

So Clostridium difficile aka C Diff is a bug that's out and about everywhere but when people get large colonies of them in their guts it can make them very sick or very dead. Typically it's immunosuppressed people in the hospital who have this problem but more and more seemingly healthy people are getting this which is what happened to an acquaintance's 50ish sister. While discussing this I learned that because C Diff is very antibiotic resistant one of the treatments is a fecal enema. Yes, that's right, someone else's feces is squirted up into your colon with the hope that their "regular" flora will like it their and move in.

I didn't need to learn that.

[Hungary Jack]

Whatever happened to good ole yogurt?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I wonder if they pay the donors.

[heyzeus]

All of my teachers were wrong; learning is not always a good thing.

[lukethedrifter]

Like a blood bank and a sperm bank do they have a poop bank?

[Swatcat27]

this is some serious [expletive]

[Leroy]

New meaning to the term, 'I really have to take a [expletive]'?

[lukethedrifter]

Holy Moly, I found a How To website that describes how to do one yourself.

What is Fecal Colon Flora Replacement, What is Fecal Enema?

To do fecal enema, you need a fresh feces from a very healthy person. To avoid getting any unwanted parasites or any other disease, you choose a feces from a very healthy, unvaccinated, breastfed baby.

You find anyone who has a 3 - 18 months old breastfed baby. You take diapers with fresh feces. Color of feces must be yellow, it must not be green, cause green color of feces indicates lack of good bowel bacteria. (Unless child was drinking freshly pressed wheat grass juice, or some other food of strong green color, green color of feces always indicates lack of good bowel bacteria. Yellow (or yellow-brown if child has eaten meat) color indicates healthy feces.) You need fresh feces (not older then 12 hours). You can refrigerate diapers with fresh feces, and use it the next day, but the best is if you can get a hold of fresh diapers.

You mix fresh feces with enema water (you can also filter it before use, of baby has eaten other foods then mother milk.) You use that water as the last enema water, when doing enema. Once you get that water inside of you, you try to keep it there as long as possible.

That is all. You will introduce widest possible range of good bacteria into the colon, and it will cure inflammatory bowel disease.

If it doesn't work with one baby, try to find another one. One will work!

[Leroy]

So do you just go up and ask someone for their baby's crap, or is there a donation bank? So many questions.

[tothebeach08]

This is true. It's the newest latest and greatest alternative when all else, including vancomycin has failed this has worked. Hope your friend feels better.