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Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection
sciencehabit writes Clostridium difficile infections kill approximately 14,000 Americans every year, often because the diarrhea-causing bacteria are highly resistant to standard antibiotics. Now, scientists have found an unusual way to combat the bugs: human feces in pill form. In the new study, researchers show that frozen fecal matter encapsulated in clear, 1.6 g synthetic pills was just as safe and effective as traditional fecal transplant techniques at treating C. difficile. Within 8 weeks or less, 18 out of 20 participants saw a complete resolution of diarrhea after consuming 30 or 60 of the feces-filled capsules. "It's probably not the best experience of your life," says team leader Ilan Youngster, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at Harvard University. "But it beats getting a tube stuck down your throat or a colonoscopy or having C. diff."
It's probably not the best experience of your life
Talk about the poor chinese laborer who assembles the pills...
Mastering the English language is fucking easy: all you have to do is to put an f* word in every fucking sentence.
I realize they were just trying to cure a case of C. difficile, but "Two girls, one pill" would have been much easier to watch.
Great. Now I'm imagining a bunch of guys pooping on a conveyor belt. Hershey Kisses anyone?
"Eat shit and live, motherfucker!"
"Well, doctor, if you insist..."
I'm left wondering what is new here. For years, folks have taken probiotics, often in pill form, during antibiotic treatment to restore intestinal flora, and to combat systemic yeast infections. How is this not just a very crude version of the same thing?
According to wikipedia, it has better results than probiotics. That is the end of my knowledge on the topic.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Ahh, The eponymous doubleshit gum.
The gum EVERYONE gives two shits over.
... live.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Gives a new meaning to "Eat shit and live".
This article is full of Sh!t
That's nothing, the pills taste like crap...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
In all seriousness - I imagine the pills are fine, but any subsequent burps are rather unpleasant.
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More likely, you and the grandparent are both the same AC and you are really a Democrat who is trying to cast Republicans as manipulative.
(Of course, maybe I'm the same AC as you and the GP and I am/you are trying to cast Democrats as manipulative - only one, two, or three of us will ever know for sure! It will be a little secret among the AC community.)
"You take the blue pill - you wake up in your bed, a victim of projectile diarrhea. You take the red pill - I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...but you still suffer from projectile diarrhea."