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madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:48 PM Sep 2012

Little-known fecal transplant cures woman

(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

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Little-known fecal transplant cures woman (Original Post) madinmaryland Sep 2012 OP
Wasn't that a plot line on Grey's Anatomy? Kookaburra Sep 2012 #1
i read that as facial and was confused as hell loli phabay Sep 2012 #2
c. difficile, antibiotic-resistant LiberalEsto Sep 2012 #3
This fecal irrigation...transplant of sorts really works....100% cure in fact. FarPoint Sep 2012 #10
You should see some of the comments meow2u3 Sep 2012 #4
Oh God not this shit again MattBaggins Sep 2012 #5
It's best to use a mother's fecal matter; that's where marybourg Sep 2012 #6
I had C.Diff and it isn't fun. n/t Bonhomme Richard Sep 2012 #7
Oh, c'mon - whose Mom hasn't given them shit at least once? sl8 Sep 2012 #8
Whoopsie PD Turk Sep 2012 #9
 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
3. c. difficile, antibiotic-resistant
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:58 PM
Sep 2012

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)
10. This fecal irrigation...transplant of sorts really works....100% cure in fact.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:42 PM
Sep 2012

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)
4. You should see some of the comments
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:58 PM
Sep 2012

They're hilarious.

Please giveashit. It could save lives.


I hope they establish a National Fecal Bank for those of us who want to giveashit.


Donor poop?

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.

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
6. It's best to use a mother's fecal matter; that's where
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:02 PM
Sep 2012

we get our bacteria from initially. Your own child's would be good too, if you're a woman.

sl8

(13,806 posts)
8. Oh, c'mon - whose Mom hasn't given them shit at least once?
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:13 PM
Sep 2012

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)
9. Whoopsie
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:16 PM
Sep 2012

If my sis gets this she's fooked, she said she said under no circumstances would she take any more shit from mom!

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