Saturday 19 January 2013

Faeces could be used to cure patients with diarrhoea


God help us in this life,see what Josbert Keller &researchers of the University of Amsterdam have found out.

Antibiotics typically only work in 15 to 26% of patients with C. Diff, and after repeated rounds of treatment, the drugs become less effective.
"The efficacy of antibiotic therapy decreases with subsequent recurrences, and it seems reasonable to initiate treatment with donor-faeces infusion after the second or third relapse," wrote researchers led by Josbert Keller of the University of Amsterdam.

Volunteers had a brief treatment with the antibiotic, combined with bowel lavage, followed by the infusion of 500 milliliters of diluted donor faeces through a tube that went into the nose, down the throat and into the small intestine.

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