Cure for killer bug Clostridium difficile

[OutHouse]

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsm...alth.cfm?id=1641252007
click link for the rest of the story.

Cure for killer bug - but there's a catch
KATE FOSTER

IN THE annals of medical history, this could go down as one of the most effective but stomach-churning treatments ever devised.

Scientists seeking a cure for a deadly superbug have successfully treated patients using human faeces.

Trials in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach.

Clostridium difficile was last week at the heart of a damning report into cleaning failures at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent, which resulted in the deaths of 90 patients.

Around 6,000 Scots are affected every year by the severe and potentially fatal form of infectious diarrhoea. Six patients at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow are currently being treated for the infection in an isolation unit.

 

[rivan]

Uh, ew.

 

[pontifex]

so now the saying could be changed to "Eat shit or die."

 

[Tiamat]

eww, i totally would not ingest diarrhea from another person. Thats disgusting.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: pontifex
so now the saying could be changed to "Eat shit or die."

excellent :laugh:

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Citrix
in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach.

You people need to give a shit.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Eating crap, FTW.

 

[cthulhu]

I wonder who thought of this cure? I would have hated to be in the test group for this treatment.
OMG:

The process takes about two weeks, during which donors are screened for suitability and other treatments are tried out. The key requirement is that donors should not have recently been on antibiotics themselves.

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: pontifex
so now the saying could be changed to "Eat shit or die."

excellent :laugh:

Very nice.

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: Citrix
in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach.

You people need to give a shit.

:laugh:

 

[OutHouse]

could you imaging burping after having that done?

 

[Gibsons]

I think I'd rather just eat yogurt. It's known to be effective in treatment/prevention. Some metranidazole would help too.

 

[Joemonkey]

Heh, best line from the article:

"Faecal 'transplants', as they are known, are believed to restore the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process."

 

[BabaBooey]

I would rather die I think ...

 

[DivideBYZero]

Veronica Moser developed this method years ago, AFAIK.

 

[jagec]

Who knew that medieval treatments could actually work?

I certainly hope it's not warm and fresh. Can you imagine the feeling of the stuff sliding up your nose and down your throat? *shudder*

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Veronica Moser developed this method years ago, AFAIK.

"Just pay no attention to what's in that hose, your
treatment's endorsed by Veronica Moser."

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Veronica Moser developed this method years ago, AFAIK.

haha

Dr A: I watched this porn staring Veronica Moser last night, but I can't get my wife to try it.
Dr B: Maybe we can get a patient to agree, we'll call it a new treatment.
Dr A: That's great idea, I'll be right back I need to prepare a sample.

 

[purepolly]

C-diff is scary shit. We had 2 pts die from an aymptomatic strain just last month. We see it C-diff all the time, and you usually can pick up on it in a lot of cases by the texture and the smell of the feces. With the two fatal cases it was asymptomatic and went totally under the radar and wasn't found until the post-mortems.

Wash your hands people - and make sure you use soap and water, Purell will not work.

 

[Squisher]

Well, if they need donors I'm in the giving mood a couple of times a day.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

If it's not Scottish it's CRAP!!

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Exactly how does this work?

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Exactly how does this work?

C. difficile infections of the GI tract tend to occur when the normal intestinal flora is severely depleted (usually from broad spectrum antibiotics). This procedure replaces the normal flora in quick fashion, hopefully re-suppressing the growth of (and subsequent disease caused by) C difficile.

 

[DivideBYZero]

If I crap in this thread, will it get better too?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Citrix
could you imaging burping after having that done?

"Aw geez, your breath smells like ass!"

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Veronica Moser developed this method years ago, AFAIK.

Ok, I knew I shouldn't have, but I checked Wikipedia for Veronica Moser. Fortunately there were no pictures, but still.......
Humans are weird weird weird creatures.

 

[91TTZ]

This is why a lot of baby animals will eat their parents feces to pick up immunity.

 

[Mr Incognito]

The only question is, how much do you want to live.