fecal transplant, anyone?
#366289 - 10/18/11 06:56 PM
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renee21
Reged: 06/02/05
Posts: 486
Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Anyone tried this? Several people have recommended it to me recently as an effective treatment for colitis and IBS. Basically you get a stool sample from a healthy-boweled person (a baby would be ideal, but some people have also used their spouse) and inject it in your colon with an enema. It repopulates you with the right bacteria.
I'm not saying I'm about to knock on my next-door neighbour's door to ask to borrow a cup of his poop. But still, you gotta admit, it's interesting!
On an unrelated note, I've done two weeks on the Paleo diet and so far it's really working for me.
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Fecal transplants have only been clinically tested on very small numbers of patients with colitis from chronic Clostridium difficile infection. Some of the C. Diff patients also had IBS. A Canadian groups has even tried a self-administered kit with 7 patients with good success. There is no published research report of it being clinically tested only on individuals with IBS.
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Hey Renee, now that sounds pretty icky to me.  But, I wonder if it works?
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