[ExI] Faecal transplant. No, really.

[Darren Greer]

>I read an article in New Scientist this week about how doctors were
experimenting on treating a variety of conditions by changing their
intestinal bacteria via "faecal transplant". I was a little skeptical, but
the research quoted exists.<

It's now fairly common hospital practice for treating c. difficile and other
intestinal bacterial infections in Canada.  A freind was just didcussing
today having performed the procedure recently. Mostly in an effort to gross
me out while I was eating. Worked too.

d.


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Tom Nowell <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy has a good set of
> references with links to papers on treating bowel conditions. However, the
> New Scientist article includes experimental therapy for Parkinson's, which
> makes you wonder how much interaction there is between our brain, our
> immmune system and the vast ecosystem that is our digestive tract.
>
> Tom
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