Interesting news about fecal transplant

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Interesting news about fecal transplant

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Costly treatments from Merck & Co and other drugmakers, and a vaccine from Sanofi, are on the horizon. But growing numbers of gastroenterologists are more excited about the use of human stool transplants, which in experimental settings have consistently cured 85 percent to 90 percent of patients who have had multiple episodes of C. diff.

http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11 ... m#comments

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I think the idea of freezing one's stool prior to taking antibiotics. It would probably have saved me from getting MC. It has the added advantage of repopulating the gut with our own bacteria and thus might increase the chances of them remaining.

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