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Message: [QUOTE="QDOG5, post: 2736652, member: 6764"] If someone close to you gets CDiff (look it up) which can be life threatening and is life altering then you will gain a new respect for the term eating poop. The Chinese were the first to use it in the fourth century I believe. There are two ways to get a fecal transplant and the easiest and most common way is to swallow 25 fecal pills which are odorless and tasteless in a half an hour. This has an 80% chance of correcting (for lack of a better medical term) your gut microbes. If it doesn't work the person does a second round of pill swallowing which ups the percentage to 95. If those fail an anal transplant is required. Luckily the first method worked for my friend. CDiff is getting more common in hospitals and nursing homes. If you are taking any antibiotic I strongly advise avoiding those places until the antibiotics are out of your system. From now on my friend is advised never to take antibiotics again. If she has to take antibiotics 3 different drs. have to be notified and they must conference to agree on the correct regimen. To see a heathy person suddenly struggle with a condition we had never heard of and be told that it might limit her activities for the rest of her life is quite sobering. Anyway said friend is cured and life is good again. Thanks for reading. We don't discuss this much(not at all because who wants talk about eating someone elses poop) so I appreciate the ability to put this out there. As for transferring gut microbes after birth I'm at a loss. I do know that researchers are realizing how important gut microbes are to everyones health. [/QUOTE]

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