But sometimes a stool can save a life. I know, yeccccccchhhhhh, but it turns out that doctors can actually transfer fecal material from a healthy donor to patients sick with C. difficile, a potentially life-threatening germ that strikes when antibiotics kill off the good bacteria that live in the gut. It’s called a fecal transplant or fecal bacteriotherapy.
A friend who works at a hospital recently told me (without revealing the patient’s identity or personal information) that such a transplant had saved a patient’s life. My thought was: Why hadn’t I heard about this therapy before?
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