"It takes 24 to 34 capsules to fit the bacteria needed for a treatment, and patients down them in one sitting. The pills make their way to the colon and seed it with the normal variety of bacteria.
Louie described 27 patients treated this way on Thursday at IDWeek, an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco. All had suffered at least four C-diff infections and relapses, but none had a recurrence after taking the poop pills.
Margaret Corbin, 69, a retired nurse's aide from Calgary, told of the misery of C-diff.
"It lasted for two years. It was horrible. I thought I was dying. I couldn't eat. Every time I ate anything or drank water I was into the bathroom," she said. "I never went anywhere, I stayed home all the time."
With her daughter as the donor, she took pills made by Louie two years ago, and "I've been perfectly fine since," Corbin said.
Dr. Curtis Donskey of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who has done fecal transplants through colonoscopies, praised the work."
They have a patient that says she took it and the symptoms have stopped.I am for this because if someone i know gets a gut infection i want them to have the best treatment they could get for it.Saying the poop pills are the most benefitial treatment for this so i would want them to have this treatment so they could get better.
I think that this is written really well and you did a good job giving information about the topic. One thing that I would reccomend doing is proofreading before you publish your work. Also make sure that you capitalize your I's.
ReplyDeleteYour response is very well written and has some great points. I totally agree with you. Digesting another person's poop does sound a bit creepy and strange. For those suffering from the infection, its a simple cure. The article states that,"Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die." That is a lot of deaths for this one infection. The article also mentioned that, "Other researchers are trying to find which bacteria most help fight off C-diff. Those might be grown in a lab dish and given to patients rather than the whole spectrum of bacteria in stool." I think it would nice to find an alternative to the poop pills.
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