Was reading the Wall Street Journal about a medical condition called - Clostridium Defficile or “C.Diff” - it occurs when you've been exposed to "Broad spectrum" antibiotics during a surgery, or to fight off an extreme infection. Essentially, the antibiotics do an excellent job killing the bacteria - but they also end up killing the "good" bacteria in your stomach - which leads to the aforementioned condition.
Anyway in the article it said that lab-mice had "Coprophagia" or "coprophagous" tendencies which is defined as the act of, or desire to, "eat dung" and they found that in mice that had C.Diff - if they ate "dung" - it in turn replenished their stomachs with the "good bacteria" - thus eliminating C. Diff.
The article continued in 2003 "...18 patients over a nine-year period who had recurrent C.diff and had "stool transplants" performed -- i.e. where doctors took "stool" from a person close to the patient, such as a spouse, and inserted it through a tube into the patient’s nose and from there to the stomach. The study found 15 patients had no more recurrences, Two patients died of unrelated illnesses and one patient had a single recurrence of C.diff after the "stool transplant"
I'll open this one up for comments...
2 comments:
I fear that Polvo has not made much progress from his diaper obsession of last week.
It kinda makes me think the end of the world is probably getting closer..when we start doing research on eating sh_t and pushing it up our noses.... but we all have heard of "peckin shi_t with the chickens" so I guess it has been around a long time.
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