Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, prepares vials in the process of making stool pills in his lab in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections. Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants - giving infected people stool from a healthy donor - can restore that balance.
Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.

It's a gross topic but a serious problem. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. The germ causes nausea, cramping and diarrhea so bad it is often disabling. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections.
Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants — giving infected people stool from a healthy donor — can restore that balance. But they're given through expensive, invasive procedures like colonoscopies or throat tubes. Doctors also have tried giving the stool through enemas but the treatment doesn't always take hold.

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Guess that age-old Adage;"Eat S***t" takes on a whole new meaning!

I put my order in today.

I've had medicine that's tasted worse.

You mean kool-aid taste bad?

Perhaps the DNC can make money by selling its policies as pill ingredients.

Not unless it's tasted right after brushing teeth.

No, the worst tasting medicine I had was sinus medicine, that lacked the candy coating, and its bitter, sulfurous taste could be tasted for several minutes and almost made me want to puke. I bought it at The Dollar Tree, last year, and while the stuff worked, I hated it.

I imagine those "poop pills" are inside a starch capsule, and even if broken open, probably tastes a bit like lunch meat.

Your medicine smells like azz.