Grandmother saved by daughter's poo

[Dion]

It must be one of the most stomach-churning medical treatments ever devised.

A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her.

Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium Difficile, the Daily Record reported.

But she was saved after receiving a "faecal transplant" from her daughter, Winnifred.

The treatment involves liquidising a sample of faeces from a close relative of the patient, and feeding the liquid down a tube into the stomach.

The treatment restores the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...26/nbug126.xml

[STeeLy]

man, there's some reaaaaally crazy sh** out there

It truly amazes me how it works though, would never imagine fecal matters saving one's life, let alone that of an old grandmother.

[TimSJ]

there was a big thing about this on the National last week... Many hospitals are refusing to do this to people and it seems to be the best cure for the c difficile bug that is going through hospitals in canada

[stang]

Nasty reminds me of 2 girls 1 cup.... ewwwww

Not gonna link it google if you must... be warned though

[CaptainCrunch]

Doctor - "Ok, the procedure is that we have to feed you a heaping steaming bowl full of poop"

Me - "Its alright doc, let me go"

[llama64]

It goes down a tube... it's not like the patient has to taste the poop.

[Kipru]

Originally Posted by stang

Nasty reminds me of 2 girls 1 cup.... ewwwww

Not gonna link it google if you must... be warned though

Ignore this post or reserve a bucket nearby and never eat icecream again. Some things should be banned even from the internet. You warned though.

[FireFly]

I was eating breakfast while I opened this thread... I should know better, but curiousity made the cat puke...

[Jayems]

nm. 2g1cup is sick. nuff said.

[foofighter15]

I have used the internet since it screamed at me when i logged in, and I have found more random stories like these on Calgarypuck then I have in all of my internet experiences. And for that, I thank you!

Seriously though...Ew.

[Hack&Lube]

Faeces are mostly dead blood cells and clumps of bacteria nestled in fibre and bile anyway. It's all part of your body.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Faeces are mostly dead blood cells and clumps of bacteria nestled in fibre and bile anyway. It's all part of your body.

It was part of someone elses body and they cramned it down her throat.

I'm glad that she's recovering because the headlines if she died would be pretty funny

"Grandma eats @@@@ and dies"

[MaDMaN_26]

Originally Posted by llama64

It goes down a tube... it's not like the patient has to taste the poop.

Unless you have acid reflux...

ewwww....

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

"Grandma eats @@@@ and dies"

so wrong but funny...

[Hack&Lube]

Now you can say to your close family:

"I hope you eat $hϱ and live!"

[Flashpoint]

I think I'd rather just die.

[Burninator]

And this is different from regular hospital food how?

[Reaper]

"I will not eat the cat poop!"

"Joo will eat de cat poop!"

[worth]

for some reason, I read part of the article and though the procedure involved smearing feces on the grandmothers face... boy was I wrong.

[SeeGeeWhy]

Eat sh*t and LIVE, Grandma!

[IntenseFan]

Funniest quote from that article: "People will have a blood transplant or a kidney transplant – what’s the difference with this?"