Iv’e been lurking for a while now posting here or there. I didn’t want my big return thread to be a shitty one…but this was just far too interesting.
Demonstrating that even in medicine, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” patients with debilitating diarrhea are finding relief, if not cures, after receiving bacteria-rich stool from the guts of healthy donors, usually close relatives.
Despite the gross-out factor, fecal transplants are simple enough to perform at home using such inexpensive tools as a bottle of saline, a 2-quart enema kit from the local drugstore and a standard kitchen blender.