Thursday, January 20th, 2011
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Important Medical Advancement Also Totally Disgusting

"There's little doubt this treatment has an image problem. Feces, including important bowel flora, is transferred from a volunteer donor—screened to limit possible other infections—into the colon of the infected patient. The treatment can be administered by a colonoscope or an enema, or by the mouth or the nose."
A terrible disease, the Clostridium difficile bug, can cause severe diarrhea, blood poisoning and lead to death, and has proven highly resistant to anti-biotics. But Sydney-based gastroenterologist Thomas Borody has developed an amazingly successful cure. And given the choice, most patients say, "Yes, please, put someone else's poop inside me." So this is a very good, important thing. Now excuse me, I will go vomit. (Maybe I should save it? In case that can be used to somehow help someone in need.)

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KarenUhOh (#19)

Wait till the pharmaceutical companies get hold of this. Ads with side-by-side toilets.

Sean Crowe (#9,472)

))<>((

Deleted by user (#8,093)

))<>(( indeed

Rev. Alex Cline (#5,867)

back and forth forever

DoctorDisaster (#1,970)

Do you want to meet?

BadUncle (#153)

Two nurses one cure?

Dave Bry (#422)

Oh. There it is.

Though I'd really like to stop thinking about this now.

kpants (#719)

I'm pretty sure I've seen a Pasolini film about this medical development already.

This viral promotion of the Human Centipede franchise is getting out of hand.

scroll_lock (#4,122)

That DVD's for sale in Tar-zhay! I couldn't believe it.

scroll_lock (#4,122)

This is just like when Gawker and Jezebel cross-post.

Rebecca (#3,032)

There was a really good (which is to say slightly more awful than every other) episode of Grey's Anatomy that dealt with this very procedure. The husband refused to uhhh make the donation until his wife admitted that she was a crazy hypochondriac; however, he relented after she made a VERY touching speech about the precariousness of life/how he was her rock.

mjfrombuffalo (#2,561)

"The treatment can be administered by a colonoscope or an enema, or by the mouth or the nose."

Eat shit or die?

BadUncle (#153)

Who wouldn't want to snort a rail of poo?

scroll_lock (#4,122)

Chuck Berry's totally on board with this.

atipofthehat (#797)

Scrolly!

scroll_lock (#4,122)

Tippy!

nonvolleyball (#9,329)

dear lord. I had to get tested for C.Diff (=poop in a plastic bucket euphemistically called a "hat") every day for like a month after my appendix exploded, which was so annoying that I'd periodically be like, "I wish I DID have this friggin' disease so they could stop CHECKING me for it." little did I know! I've endured some gross medical stuff in my day, but I'm grateful to have been spared a poo transplant.

Yamara (#9,395)

I feel gavaged already.

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