Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This is a shitty subject
But it involves one of the only remedies for a deadly bacterial infection that the all to universal use of antibiotics has created.
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered clinicians to stop transplanting healthy fecal matter from one patient to another until the agency has had a chance to review and test the procedure.With initial studies showing a 94% success rate against C.diff for transplants against only 24% for the remaining effective antibiotics, the halt in FMT transplants will probably kill people and certainly cause unneeded misery. The halt will probably continue until Big Pharma finds away to patent someone's shit for their profit.
According to the Omaha World-Herald, the therapy is used to fight the antibiotic-resistant bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diff.
In FMT therapy, a small amount of healthy stool is introduced to the gut of a patient suffering from C. diff, a multidrug resistant germ that can take hold in a person’s digestive tract when they are prescribed antibiotics, for instance. C. diff is notoriously hard to cure and manifests in the form of persistant, sometimes bloody diarrhea. Left unchecked, it can cause serious dehydration, damage to the colon and even death.
When stool containing healthy bacteria is introduced into the system, many patients are finally getting relief from chronic C. diff infections, which physicians point to as reason enough to continue the procedure.
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