I really enjoyed reading this article lately. I've always been fascinated about how things we'd never expect are used as treatments.
As a rehab nurse, I've certainly seen (and smelled) more than my share of 1) poop and 2) C-diff.
My favorite quote, though, sheds some light on the why/how physicians do research.
“After the first four or five patients, we started thinking, ‘We can’t
go on doing this kind of obscure treatment without evidence,’ ” Dr.
Keller said. “Everybody is laughing about it.”
If you thought you left high school when you entered the international renown of medicine, you really haven't.
Who would have guessed...
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"...have had fecal transplantation. It involves diluting stool with a liquid, like salt water, and then pumping it into the intestinal tract via an enema, a colonoscope or a tube run through the nose into the stomach or small intestine."
I think I'd choose the enema method of transplantation.
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