It sounds like it is actually poo—without undigested food, says Dr. Mercotan.
You’d have a hard time convincing me that this is worse than dying of a horrible infection. But it still seems so barbaric.
Yeah. You’d think with all the great advances in technology we’ve made that we’d have gotten to a point where we wouldn’t have to insert poo into people to cure them. Then again, sometimes I feel that way about childbirth. With all our great scientific/medical strides, there’s no neat, clean easy way to just decant a kid Brave New World style.
“…donor stool is delivered from below through a colonoscope or retention enema, or from above through a nasogastric or nasoduodenal tube…”
[faints]
You’d have to convince me that I wasn’t being filmed for the New Candid Camera show (or something of that sort). But after I was certain that it wasn’t an elaborate prank, I would be ok with it.
I had a very bad experience with C. Diff. I was in India about 10 years ago and fell victim to a bad GI infection (from eating street food). I went from 165 to 145 pounds in 3-4 days. So my uncle, the doctor, prescribed an antibiotic that worked. Unfortunately, he never told me to stop taking it once my symptoms got better. I assumed that I should take the whole course, since that was the rule with all the antibiotics I’d ever taken.
I felt great until I got back home and started having the same symptoms. After a week of torture, my doc here found C. Diff. So I took some other antibiotic to fix the flora issue. But it was torturous. If a fecal transplant was necessary, I would do it in a heartbeat.
I’d expect someone with your nick to have serious reservations about handing over perfectly good shit … 
Blending turd slurry.
Blending. Turd. Slurry.
Blending.
Turd.
Slurry.
Oh my God I am going to vomit.
For some reason, there always seems to be enough to go around.
____ <insert your own joke about rectal-cranial inversion syndrome>________
My nick hints at why this may not be the case … 
So - all the AtM porn is now considered Public Service announcments?
Sure I’d do it. I’d even opt for it before antibiotics If I could. Antibiotics generally make me a bit ill, and I’m allergic to several kinds. The fecal transplant sounds like it works really fast with no ill effects, and it’s not as if I’d be going at a plate of poo logs with a knife and fork or anything like that.
Would do it. Shit, yeah.
Incidentally, we would use the same concept when starting a new fish tank. Get an old, dirty sponge or bit of gauze from the filter of an existing healthy tank and put it in the new one. The sponge would be chock full of fish poop and various other flotsam and jetsam from a fish tank – along with (and this is key) an active, stable bacterial culture. Works like a charm to establish a new tank, and you don’t need to buy any additives (providing your local water just has chlorine in it).
It is a common medical procedure to simmer Koala feces in hot water and serve the resulting tea to those encountering various illnesses. Recently Mercy Hospital resumed this practice, but received complaints that there were chunks of Koala crap floating in the concoction. Patients were informed that…
Does anyone else picture a a tube going from one person’s ass to the other’s nose?
“Okay…you inhale and you push”
I think there was a scene like that in Jackass II.
I don’t think it’s a simple enema. They insert a tube up into the colon or even into the small intestine. They want to get the donation as high into the gut as possible.
When I’ve had colonoscopies, I’ve been sedated. Folks who haven’t say they are painful. I imagine it’s similar, and would rather be out for the whole experience.
That may have occurred, but it is not this procedure. This procedure might blend it with milk, but inserts a tube all the way down to the stomach or below, and feeds the concoction through the tube.
I think this happened to a crazy friend of mine once. Of course it was totally by accident.
Oddly enough, my sister has been suffering with C.Diff for over a year now. I forwarded the article to her…
If they use a nasal tube, I would demand that it not be of the clear variety. You see the “mixture” sloooooowly coming up the tube… closer… closer! : shudders :
I’d do it if necessary, but like a firing squad, a blindfold is necessary.