One thing, how come they can’t just take the bacteria from the aforementioned slurry and put it in a pill form? Hopefully a white or blue colored pill form. (Certainly not brown for goodness sakes.)
A woman from my church just had this done as an experimental procedure at the Mayo Clinic. She had the through-the-nose kind and said that was the worst part because she was awake, and it caused a horrible nose bleed that wouldn’t stop so they had to take it out and put it in the other side. She said there was horrible pain. That seems like the worst part. But this week in church she announced that her c. diff. was cured. So in the end I think she thought it was well worth it.
Given that experience, I’d have to say that, yes, I would do it.
See Post #2 and #3 in this very thread.
Why has it fallen out of favor?
I’ve heard of it, and I’d have no problem doing it if my doctor thought it was the best course of action for whatever was ailing me.
Sorry, Ask. I read the whole thread but didn’t realize they were talking pharmaceuticals.
Shit.
Never. I’m too old for that shit.
Talked to my sister, she says she’s heard of it and wants to do it. (She’s been suffering from C. Diff for over a year now, and been hospitalized several times because of it.) Now the only problems are finding someone to perform the procedure, and someone to give a shit.
Coming this summer…
The Human Centipede II: Now They’re Just Getting Silly
Perhaps the real question here is whether you would rather have another person’s shit stuck in to you by your nose or up your ass. Hmmmmm.
Assuming **Irishman **is correct and the ass route is more like a colonoscopy than an enema, I’d be sorely tempted to take the NG tube. Not that NG tubes are fun, but colonoscopies looks pretty dreadful. OTOH, they give you Versed for up the butt stuff, so that’s a plus…
Same reason leeches and maggot therapy fell out of favor: we figured we could do it better, faster, cheaper and without the ick factor. Then we realized that the ‘natural’ way (and obviously shoving someone else’s poo up your own back end isn’t really ‘natural’, but you get my point) actually worked better.
It fell out of favor because of the ick factor and because antibiotics were thought to be an easy, more clean route to accomplishing the goal. Antibiotics were the wonder tool.
What they have discovered is that sometimes antibiotics doesn’t work - it kills the good, and the bad is getting resistant. Ergo, dig up an old option and see if it works. Hey, it does. Crap, now we’re back to dealing with the ick factor.
They could take reasonable steps to reduce the ick factor.
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color the fluid so that it is not recognizable.
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deoderize the fluid. There may be a few ways to do this. A quick vacuum should remove a lot of the stronger odors without killing the bacteria. Throw in a mild perfume.
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change the damned name and call the fluid something happy.
Actually, I wonder if there could be a quick way to put the fluid in water soluble capsules. Then the whole tube to the throat thing wouldn’t be needed.
I was kinda wondering the same thing (gelcaps). I’d rather have to swallow a horse pill or two than endure the tube.
Craptabs?
Stooltastic?
Bowelblow?
Fecalflex?
Shitrax?
Restorpoo?
They weren’t talking about pills in posts 2 and 3. I’d like to know the answer to your question also.
I’ll also ask Qadgop the Mercotan, do I get to pick the donor? Cause it’d be a lot less icky if I knew the donor was my wife, and not maybe some homeless guy trying to earn a few bucks…
Yes. Maybe you have a gelcap tube that you fill with the poo, then a machine that twists off segments like a hot dog. Voila! You have pills filled with poo. It should be simple enough to do that any doctors office could have one.
I can do that without a machine.