[www.keralites.net] Liquid faeces food curing West Midlands C. diff patients - BBC news [2 Attachments]

 

Liquid faeces food curing West Midlands C. diff patients :- More than 20 people with Clostridium difficile in the West Midlands have been saved by feeding them liquid faeces. ( shit) 

Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham has become the largest centre in the UK for faecal transplants.

Scientists there claim a 90% success rate in people whose treatment with conventional antibiotics has failed.

The stools are stored at -80C (-112F) until needed. They are then filtered with a sterile solution to make a liquid

Patients who contract it are given three courses of antibiotics to clear it up, but about 10% fail to respond to conventional treatment and become extremely weak.

'Looks like coffee'

Professor Peter Hawkey from Birmingham University's School of Immunity and Infection, says about a third of these people can die.

Professor Peter Hawkey and his team believe they have saved at least 20 lives

The first patient Prof Hawkey's team treated had been in hospital for 100 days.

Within 24 hours of the transplant, the patient was able to walk around the ward.

Since then, the public health laboratory has treated more than 60 patients.

But the technique is not new. It was first used by the Chinese thousands of years ago and has now become the last resort for patients with C. diff in hospital.

Full article in the link below 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-33614569

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