One dead after poop transplant gone wrong, FDA warns

I just want to be fucking clear - stool transplants work so incredibly well that they are kept away from modern medicine.

You can't take business away from big $$ pharma and docs that are paid big money out of the tax payer wallet.

$1000 per month vancomycin can't fix anything, but one stool transplant can cure CDI in about a day or two.

Streets of San Francisco.

Don't they perform a lab analysis on the shit before they transplant it?
Seems like this could have been prevented.

People who take too many antibiotics can lose certain gut bacteria necessary for digestion.

Only one way to get it back!!

Gross but true.

Stool transplant has been a treatment for years for c-difficile, a deadly gut infection which I had.

the two standard drugs did not work. Within a half of the final around-the-clock dose, symptoms roared back.

The GI docs gave up pretty much.

The infectious disease doc just said give it more time, we will test until you are clear.

took maybe half a year.

a very tough time

but I was lucky

sad to hear there may be problems with this life-saving treatment.

Satanists eat it by the plateful.

? you wanna say any more about this?

What in the fresh hell is a poop transplant?

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FDA puts the squeeze on poop transplants after spread of drug-resistant gut germ.

One patient has died and another became seriously ill after fecal transplants inadvertently seeded their innards with a multi-drug resistant bacterial infection, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday.

The cases highlight the grave risks of what some consider a relatively safe procedure. They also call attention to the mucky issues of federal oversight for the experimental transplants, which the FDA has struggled to regulate. In its warning Thursday, the agency announced new protections for trials and experimental uses of the procedure.

The FDA shared minimal details from the deadly transplants. Its warning only noted that the cases involved two patients who were immunocompromised prior to the experimental transplants and received stool from the same donor. Subsequent to the transplant, the patients developed invasive infections from an E. coli strain that was resistant to a wide variety of antibiotics in the penicillin and cephalosporin groups. The E. coli strain carried a drug-defeating enzyme called an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL), which generally cleaves a ring common to all the chemical structures of those antibiotics. When unnamed researchers who administered the transplant looked back at the donor stool, they found that the stool contained an identical ESBL-producing E. coli.

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Do any of you still think that anal sex is safe after reading this?

Jeez, just eat some Greek yogurt and some lacto-fermented pickles if you want to encourage proper gut and intestinal tract flora. This sounds like some retarded cult procedure.

What in the fresh hell is a poop transplant?

Of course it is, with your wife or girlfriend.

If your immunocompromised, you might want to rethink it. Most people are not. If your having regular hot sex with your S.O., you probably have their gut bacteria already.

Who is getting c-diff? Can it come back for those who think they have gotten rid of it?

Shit just got real!