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Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a
by jrabone 12y ago
Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a carbapenem-resistant strain of streptococcus introduced via a central line).
- rosser 12y agoThen why are physicians performing fecal transplants?
- Fomite 12y agoFecal transplants are typically done with stool either very similar to your own in terms of the microbial makeup (preferably a family member that lives with you) or with synthetic, cultured stool that has been made free of pathogens. It's still not a fun procedure, and the side effects are unpleasant. They're just less unpleasant than recurrent C. difficile.
- FreedomFiber 12y ago"A regime of concentrated AO+ caused a hundredfold decrease of Propionibacterium acnes" The way I see it, both methods (using detergents or probiotics) are achieving the same effect: a decrease in harmful bacteria. The only difference is when probiotics are used, there is a lessened chance of a harmful microbe overgrowth.
- jrabone 12y agoI can't reply directly to "rosser" due to max comment depth, but fecal transplants don't generally involve introducing gut bacteria to anywhere other than the gut.