Fecal Transplants to Cure Infections—A Modern Take on a 1,700-Year-Old Idea
Bacteriotherapy sounds a lot more amenable of a term than "fecal transplant," yet they're both treatments that use bacteria itself to cure or treat infections. Fecal transplants, specifically, are an up-and-coming treatment option for a potentially deadly and difficult-to-treat diarrheal infection called Clostridium difficile. Fecal transplants were first developed during the 4th century when a Chinese medicine doctor gave a mixture of human feces by mouth to patients who had severe diarrhea from food poisoning. It was effective and hailed as a miracle. Not surprisingly (can you imagine... more
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