Hi steemian, this one of the most creepy medical treatment i have ever heard of. This blog need a strong stomach and brave heart, if you think you don't have what it takes please do not proceed. You have been warned.
Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT)
This one is totally out of hook, an extraordinary method to treat antibiotics associated Diarrhea which caused by clostridium difficile , it a type of colitis mainly caused by using antibiotics which kill normal flora (bacteria help in digestion) and leave C.difficile (Bacteria) like a pig in mud\Sh*t with no competition so it start to colonized the large intestine. The treatment of fecal transplantation aim to restore that balance by reintroducing this Normal Flora from disinfected processed stool of a healthy person.
Wait you are saying that they will put someone Poop into my rectum or in a pill, WTF!?#*
I wish there is other way to say it but yes that what they will do. Some time this type of diarrhea can cause sever dehydration and electrolytes disturbance and not responding to treatment.
The process (how they do it)
This transplantation is not an alternative medicine like acupuncture or meditation. It is medicine with well known approach and good research to support it. What a kind of medicine?
First it start with finding a donor and this need careful selection as it is not easy to find suitable donor who free from all bacterial and parasitic infections and other Gastrointestinal diseases. The second step is preparing the specimen which is complected lab procedures, about 250 gram are needed for therapeutic effect. However fresh stool is recommended but frozen stool showed about same result. The last step is administration of the fecal material which is vary according to cases suitability, can be by Enema, colonoscopy or Nasogastric tube (NGT).
Not sure about you but i will let no body do this to me. NEVER.
I mean dehydration from Diarrhea is better than feeling of foreign Poop in your colon to the rest of your life.
Anyway if it is life threatening diarrhea you have no choice but eating shit to live. sorry.