C. difficile
is notoriously hard to treat, and if the standard first-line therapies
of targeted antibiotics fail, patients and their doctors are willing to
try anything to shut down the rampant growth of bacteria. Enter the
fecal transplant, which involves doctors taking feces donated by a
generous healthy stranger (who doesn’t harbor C. difficile or
other infections), liquefying it in a solution of saline, water, or even
milk or yogurt, straining it and delivering the resulting solution to
another patient via colonoscopy. People generally feel better just a
couple days after the transplant, and many recent studies show the
treatment cures around 90% of C. difficile
http://time.com/3433333/fecal-transplant-safe/
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