Poop in the Pool

[waterbear]

Nice, puke in the pool too.

Now THAT is gross!

[CarlD]

Ben,

TMI!!!!

Carl

[brent.roberts]

I wish I could give you guys a link to help validate the "eat poop" idea but there are, as of about the middle of 2010 at least 2 Canadian hospitals that
have adopted this as a treatment for C-difficile infections. C-difficile is present in most of us, in the flora in our gut. Antibiotics are quite good at killing off that flora ... hence diahrea is a common side effect of taking the antibiotics. Without the normal flora in your gut, the C-difficile runs rampant and causes all kinds of problems up to severe cases causing death. I think the doctor who started the treatment idea was in Alberta and could not get his hospital to allow the treatment he proposed, eat your own (pre-anti-biotic) poop. He has in the last couple of years got 2 hospitals to try it, one I believe in the Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario area.

I suspect in time someone will come up with a capsule or porridge slurry that will have lots of the good flora to replace what got killed by the antibiotics, and put it in a lovely chocolate errrr maybe orange flavored drink that will leave out the connotations of eat your own ... and make
millions doing it.

In the meantime, don't get sick enough to need the antibiotics ... especially in some hospitals where the more resistant strains of C-difficile are
on the loose. Just this week there are a few with that challenge in the Niagara Falls area.