Summary on poop pills
Doctors found that using bacteria from poop and putting it into pills may help fight infections. Clostridium difficile or C-diff is an infection that kills around fourteen thousand people a year. Antibiotics can get rid of C-diff, but they have a risk of killing good bacteria too.Fecal transplants like colonoscopies may put good bacteria back in the colon but this is an uncomfortable and very expensive procedure. Doctors have also tried putting healthy stool bacteria back in a patient through enemas,but the bacteria does not always fully stay in. Dr.Thomas Louie has created a new way to help patients. He has proposed that taking stool bacteria from a healthy person, and removing the bacteria,placing bacteria in pills to
