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(CNN) -- After surviving a near-fatal car accident, Kaitlin Hunter found herself battling a devastating bacterial infection in her colon that also threatened her life.
The persistent infection was beaten through a little-known technique involving the transplant of fecal matter from Hunter's mother, which put healthy bacteria back into her colon.
Following the July procedure, "I've been so happy," said Hunter, 20, of Marietta, Georgia. "I'm cured."
Her struggle began more than a year earlier when she was released from a hospital in Sacramento, California.
A June 2011 car accident fractured her lower spine, lacerated her liver and colon, and broke all 10 toes. Emergency crews used the Jaws of Life to cut Hunter from her dad's car, and then she was flown to the hospital, where she spent the next month.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/health/fecal-transplant/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12
Kookaburra
(2,649 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)A friend of mine caught it at Walter Reed Hospital a few years ago. Horrible disease.
Thank heavens there's a treatment for it.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)I just attended a lecture of C-diff last month. Our medical director is an Infectious Disease Specialist. He said there is a company that specializes in procuring the product. Another treatment is oral vancomycin....Flagyl does not eliminate the c-dff...just weakens it.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)They're hilarious.
Really CNN?
REALLY?
And you wonder why your network has turned into a joke.
All kidding aside, crap contains E. Coli, the bacteria that was killed by the antibiotics she took. Fecal transplant was the last resort.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)woo... nonsense...
Please find who did this nonsense and put them in jail.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)we get our bacteria from initially. Your own child's would be good too, if you're a woman.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)sl8
(13,806 posts)Actually, that's a pretty interesting story. After all she's been through, it's good to see that she's feeling better now.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)If my sis gets this she's fooked, she said she said under no circumstances would she take any more shit from mom!