Now There Will Be a Market Even for Secondhand Food: New Help Is Found for Diarrhea -- Fecal Transplants

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Now There Will Be a Market Even for Secondhand Food: New Help Is Found for Diarrhea -- Fecal Transplants

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/now-there-will-be-a-marke_b_5243095.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/iqpZSqTS.RkXSXTrZ6tMgQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Huffington%20Post/Now_There_Will_Be_a-ddbc5349dbee0ee2d70c3df71936cd8e" width="130" height="86" alt="Now There Will Be a Market Even for Secondhand Food: New Help Is Found for Diarrhea -- Fecal Transplants" align="left" title="Now There Will Be a Market Even for Secondhand Food: New Help Is Found for Diarrhea -- Fecal Transplants" border="0" /></a>An article in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reports that transplanting feces from healthy persons into diarrheic individuals can help their diarrhea. As summarized by Eureka Alert: Using frozen stool from healthy, unrelated donors was safe and effective in treating patients with serious, relapsing diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile [CD] ... Known as fecal microbiota transplantation, the treatment was equally effective whether given via a colonoscope or a nasogastric tube [down through the nose, into the stomach]. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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