FDA Is Causing Poop Transplants to Get All Backed Up
They really have to get their shit together.
We were excited to find out that the U.S. got its very own poop transplant bank—not just because poop jokes are a lot of fun, but poop transplants are an amazingly effective treatment for some nasty digestive bacteria issues. So why does the FDA have a someone else's poop a stick up their butt about it? Because everybody poops, which makes it hard to regulate.
Poop Pills, Pills Made From Poop, Could Fight Serious Infection
Stop giggling! This is serious!
This story is about very serious science -- and poop. A doctor at the University of Calgary have found a way to create pills from fresh human feces that could act as a much easier fecal transplant option for patients suffering from Clostridium difficile, or C-diff which kills 14,000 Americans every year.
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Fecal Transplants Promising for Treating Intestinal Issues, Still Fecal Transplants
Antibiotics, while being one of the greatest advances in medical history, have their downsides. Sometimes, they can do some collateral damage and destroy cultures of bacteria that rightfully belong in the human body, nice cultures of nice bacteria. When these get killed, problems start. One of the more common instances of this has to do with intestinal bacteria. When the intestinal bacteria landscape gets screwed up, sometimes the only way to right the situation is to reintroduce a culture of healthy bacteria to the area. How do you do that? A fecal transplant.
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