The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant

[space-time]

very interesting article. I heard about this topic before but this article goes into more details and examples of DYI transplants to treat/cure a variety of diseases. The quote below in particular caught my attention. It is hard to imagine how much these people suffer if they can say something like this.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27503660

Youngster admits that even when frozen, faeces have a slight smell. "It's not a very pleasant treatment, especially from a psychological point of view," he says. "But we have yet to encounter a sick person with C. diff who has refused this treatment. It's a horrible disease. We had a patient with cancer that contracted C. diff and he said 'If I could get rid of one of these two diseases, please get rid of the C. diff.'"

[Numo]

I smell an opportunity for a donor to make some money here.

[space-time]

Ammo wrote:
I smell an opportunity for a donor to make some money here.

Deposits from three fully-screened donors are kept in 250ml bottles at -80C, before being shipped to hospitals for $250 (£150) each.

[Wags]

Brings new meaning to the phrase, "That's some good $hit!".

[decay]

i got sh1tfaced the other day

[Speedy]

From the OP's article:

"A recently proposed rule from the FDA, that donors should be known to the patient or the doctor administering the faecal transplant, threatens OpenBiome's business model, but the owners are still feeling upbeat about the future. Their latest venture is in capsules containing faeces. Similar products have been trialled successfully by researchers at the University of Calgary and Ilan Youngster is currently working on a further study. Thomas Borody also uses them - he calls them "crapsules". Taking faecal tablets, although still revolting as a concept, is less invasive than a colonoscopy or enema."

[Racer X]

My GF had a C Diff gut infection last year. It was brutal.

[artie67]

Many thanks space-time! I heard that broadcast on BBC World and wanted to find a copy for our neighbor who had that proceedure. It saved her life. The dependence on antibiotics is starting to take a toll.
I'll check out the article and radio version link tomorrow. Thanks

[Acer]

I'm sitting on a gold mine.

[mrbigstuff]

Acer wrote:
I'm sitting on a gold mine.

oh, brother. the possibilities.