Swallowing human faeces will cure disease, NHS say

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Telegraph UK

Swallowing human faeces will cure disease, the NHS has announces as it opens it first ever frozen faecal bank.

Frozen samples are being shipped around the country from a laboratory outside Portsmouth to relieve thousands sufferers of a previously incurable gut problem.

Every year in England more than 13,000 people suffer from Clostridium difficile, and one in five do not respond to conventional treatment.

The condition, which appears to be a side effect of antibiotics, causes people to lose control of their bowels.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/19/swallowing-human-faeces-will-cure-disease-nhs-say/

[Matt_in_STL]

1. Republicans must be the healthiest people on the planet.

They've been swallowing shit for years.

[jtuck004]

2. It can have devastating effects on your hair.n/t

[RKP5637]

3. But don't fall for the republicans' shit they spread, it's vile and diseased for sure! n/t

[alarimer]

4. They suffer from cranial-rectal inversion n/t

[raging moderate]

5. This would explain their opposition to universal health care.

They know they won't ever need it.

[scscholar]

56. And, their kind is...

simply fascinated by this. I'm only confused by reading about it here. Thought we were above poop jokes.

[Trajan]

6. I thought that feces transplants were injected 'backwards' into the intestines

Swallow? ... Um ... What?

[Jesus Malverde]

10. Both

Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT). Also known as a stool transplant, FMT is emerging as an alternative strategy for treating recurrent C. difficile infections. Though not yet approved by the FDA, clinical studies of FMT are currently underway.

FMT restores healthy intestinal bacteria by placing another person's (donor's) stool in your colon, using a colonoscope or nasogastric tube. Donor stools are carefully and repeatedly screened for parasites, viruses, bacteria and certain antibodies before being used for an FMT.

Research has shown FMT has a success rate higher than 90 percent for treating C. difficile infections. One small, randomized, controlled trial stopped early because the results were so positive, with a 94 percent success rate overall.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/c-difficile/basics/treatment/con-20029664

[alfredo]

37. That's for Colitis and maybe Crohn's.

[polly7]

7. I've actually used this method with healthy mare manure to mix with feed to boost up fragile colts.

I thought the vet was crazy at first, but it made sense and they responded quickly.

[csziggy]

35. Foals eat their dams' manure to get the proper bacteria in their guts

If a foal is fragile, it may not have consumed enough to get a healthy colony going so it makes sense to give them some extra.

After the colostrum - the first milk the mare produces that passes along some immunities - the manure is the next most important thing for foals to get so their systems will work right!

[Monk06]

41. So do baby elephants Right outa mummies bum lol

[Laffy Kat]

55. Rabbits eat their own doo doo. nt

[polly7]

48. Yes.

I raised quite a few foals, most as rescue babies, and even fall foals who'd been weaned too early and meant to be headed for the meat trucks, I mixed healthy manure into their feed for the first few weeks.

My own mares had healthy, sturdy babies. It was very hard to see the condition of some of the ones I brought home from the auction mart.

[csziggy]

49. You are wonderful for taking on the rescue babies!

I never had the space for that.Since I probably wouldn't have been able to let them go, I would have had to stop quickly anyway since I would have had more horses than I could house or feed!

Over the nearly thirty years I bred horses, we only ever had four problem babies - two "dummy" foals that never had the suckling reflex or ability to stand and two foals with contracted tendons that we pulled through. One of those foals is still here at seventeen and will never live anywhere else, same as her best buddies - I have four mares and the last foal we bred who is now four.

For all the survivors we never had to do any special treatments, even the ones with contracted tendons. They were all vigorous with strong immune systems. Our vet checked every newborn for immune response and we never had any problems.

[Person 2713]

58. You are doing good and have found a way for nature to help

[Xolodno]

8. So when I tell a Repub to...

...eat shit and die....I was wrong on the second part.

[milestogo]

12. Eat shit and prosper

doesn't sound quite right though.

[AgerolanAmerican]

16. maybe "eat shit and live"?

[enid602]

18. groceries

Cuts down on high grocery bills as well.

[Munificence]

57. Oh Yum....

re fried beans.

[Taitertots]

23. Du'zy!

[jalan48]

9. I think I'll choose to be sick, thanks anyway.

[Jesus Malverde]

11. Unlikely...

Severe infection

In severe cases, people tend to become dehydrated and may need hospitalization. C. difficile causes the colon to become inflamed (colitis) and sometimes may form patches of raw tissue that can bleed or produce pus (pseudomembranous colitis). Signs and symptoms of severe infection include:

Watery diarrhea 10 to 15 times a day
Abdominal cramping and pain, which may be severe
Fever
Blood or pus in the stool
Nausea
Dehydration
Loss of appetite
Weight loss
Swollen abdomen
Kidney failure
Increased white blood cell count

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/c-difficile/basics/symptoms/con-20029664

[myrna minx]

13. My friend's mother passed away due to complications of this disease.

Had this treatment been available to her at the time, they would gladly provide it to her. But he time. They thought to do a fecal transplant, it was too late. It's a very cruel condition. It really is awful.

The fecal transplants save lives.

[Person 2713]

59. Choose to be sick but you could be choosing to die! This is one ugly disease a result

often of strong Antibiotics killing not only the bad but all the good leaving you with a life threatening illness if it doesn't respond to treatment

[still_one]

14. Unless something has changed, that isn't what is done. The treatment used is

Fecal transplant, which involves taking stool from a healthy person and transferring it to the infected person.

The headline misrepresents how they deal with C Diff

[My Good Babushka]

15. Something has changed! What a time to be alive!

They are putting it in pills now, some people are unable to hold the enema in long enough, I think.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/poop-pills-are-latest-way-cure-dangerous-c-diff-infections-8C11300066

[still_one]

38. I guess it is formulated so the stomach acids don't inactivate it, and it will restore the patients

flora

Thanks for the update

[jtuck004]

17. Just make profit the most important thing in your food supply. Seems to work for us. n/t

[CanonRay]

19. You first.

[Kingofalldems]

20. Gives new meaning to the phrase--

Shit sandwich.

[trudyco]

21. Talk aoout a provocative headline

Fecal Transplants are being studied for more than c. diff. but it has an amazing recovery rate for this bacterial infestation that can kill. Much, much better success rate than antibiotics.

Sounds like they have figured out how to freeze it and encapsulate it so it gets past the stomach acids and populates the colon, which is where poop and pre-poop belongs. You don't taste it.

They are looking at it for diabetes and weight loss, too, I think. Also IBS. We are still trying to figure out how the gut brain and bacteria work. I'm not sure if a foal eating healthy manure would be effective as then the stomach has a chance to neutralize the bacteria or whatever it is in the gut that makes this work.

[Baobab]

44. They have to stop feeding antibiotics to animals

that produce foods.

Cows milk likely contains antibiotics, also its in meat, in animals raised for meat...

Eating a little dirt from time to time is healthy too.

[T_i_B]

45. There is an agenda here

The Telegraph is very anti-NHS.

[winter is coming]

22. Suddenly, I'm less depressed about the prospect of Trump as President. n/t

[eggplant]

24. Thanks, I needed a good laugh today. n/t

[JudyM]

39. Ha! Indeed.

[xloadiex]

25. Gives a whole new meaning

to waking up with shit breath.

[Doctor_J]

26. How about goose feces? I live on a lake and usually have a bumper crop

[snort]

28. For the best result,

look for the Christmas Goose.

[Doctor_J]

29. Here it is

https://m.

[intrepidity]

31. Lots of dogs like to eat shit

maybe they are on to something?

My dog loves sheep shit for some reason. Maybe he knows something.

[stage left]

27. To those laughing

If you had C dif you would try anything to get better so you could live a normal life. It is not a laughing matter.

[TexasBushwhacker]

46. I got it from antibiotics following a root canal

It was awful. I got medication to stop it but it took a long time. It affected my productivity at work and I lost my job.

[Warpy]

53. I could diagnose it before the elevator doors opened.

If there was a case on the floor, everybody knew it.

It's gas gangrene of the large intestine. It is truly horroble. Fecal transplant is the hope of the future because antibiotics don't always take care of it. Only restoring a healthy bacteria population in the gut is a sure fire cure.

[Rafale]

30. Good to know

So this year's election won't kill me. Hmmmm. Awesome!

[vkkv]

32. It's no joke. Baby elephants are fed manure from the mother to assist the baby's disgestive tract by

adding certain bacteria to the baby's system..

[Akicita]

33. It's true. My dog never gets diseases.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

34. Oh so that's what that whole '2 Girls

and a Cup' thing was all about. A health PSA.

[The Second Stone]

36. British hospital food given new bs excuse

Sigh

[Bayard]

40. Ummmmmm......

Isn't this how people get Ecoli?

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. Only certain strains of E coli are dangerous

They screen the feces for pathogens before using it.

[truthisfreedom]

42. Ok yuck. It's much more complicated than this

Sensationalist headline.

[olddad56]

43. do I have this straight, food is bad for you, shit is good. Finally a chance to solve worrd hunger.

[tabasco]

50. How about .....

[Warpy]

51. Do not try this at home

The safest way is via rectal tube from a healthy donor.

Eventually they'll start refining the appropriate bacteria and putting them into capsule form and that can be taken orally.

However, coprophagia never cured anyone of anything and is dangerous as well as disgusting.

[yodermon]

52. EAT SHIT AND LIVE!

/thread

[yodermon]

54. dang someone beat me to it upthread.

Will leave it in all caps anyway

[zyt46896]

60. Uh, I think I'll pass on this

I am strongly opposed to ingesting bodily wastes, regardless of its supposed benefits. Yuck.