Sunday, December 02, 2007

Grandmother saved by daughter's poo

Well, it had to happen eventually, a grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal super-bug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter's feces to her...
Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old woman from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium difficile.
But she was saved after receiving a 'fecal transplant' from her daughter, Winnifred.
The treatment involves turning a sample of feces from a close relative of the patient into liquid and feeding it down a tube into the stomach. The treatment restores the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process.
"When you tell people about the treatment, they wrinkle their noses," Mrs. McEwan said.
"But it’s not like they put it on a plate and have you eat it. You don’t ever see or smell a thing.
"People will have a blood transplant or a kidney transplant – what’s the difference with this?"

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