Faecal capsules 'may help stop gut infection'

[Northerner]

Capsules containing frozen faecal material may help clear up C. difficile infections, research suggests.

Twenty people were given the therapy, using material from volunteers, in an attempt to treat serious diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile bugs.

The work builds on previous studies showing that faecal transplants may help reset the balance of bacteria in the gut.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29572670

But researchers warned people should not be tempted to make "home brews".

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[AlisonM]

Eeeeeew!!!!!

 

[Redkite]

Home brews - ha ha ha! Nothing would surprise me, for example there's a nutty woman living not far from me that liquidises people's placentas to make smoothies and capsules. 😱

 

[robert@fm]

Are they bovine faecal capsules? 😱🙄

 

[Aoife]

I saw a thing on TV some time ago about the manufacturing process of this and suffice to say you would have to be absolutely desperate to go for this treatment!

I didn't envy the scientist making the product either 😉

 

[Northerner]

Presumably, if the treatment proves successful, they will have to employ people as 'production specialists' - imagine discussing your job at the dinner table! 😱 'Have a good day at work, dear?' 😱 😉

 

[Aoife]

Presumably, if the treatment proves successful, they will have to employ people as 'production specialists' - imagine discussing your job at the dinner table! 😱 'Have a good day at work, dear?' 😱 😉

To be fair, if you get a few healthcare professionals around a table in a social situation this is normally where the conversation ends up anyway! I pity the people sitting next to me and my colleagues if we go for a drink after work, we forget that there is a real world and what passes as normal everyday conversation for us is simply not acceptable for the general population!

 

[Northerner]

To be fair, if you get a few healthcare professionals around a table in a social situation this is normally where the conversation ends up anyway! I pity the people sitting next to me and my colleagues if we go for a drink after work, we forget that there is a real world and what passes as normal everyday conversation for us is simply not acceptable for the general population!

You have a point! 😱

 

[Bloden]

You've got to let off steam somehow, Aoife! 🙂