Friday, July 13, 2012

PUUPUU Platter

So, I just got through reading one of the most disgusting, yet overly interesting articles in Critical Care Nurse. The article was titled "Making the case for fecal bacteriotherapy". C, you should ask you physician about this when you get up north. Apparantly, patients that are infected with C. Diff, or clostridium difficile, have amazing bouts of diarrhea (i've witnessed a few of these). Their normal fluora are taken over by the toxins produced by the c. diff, and the cycle begins. Watery diarrhea, painful abd cramps, toxic megacolon, pseudomembranous colitis, all of these are possible. So here's the nasty part... well, other than the tangy diarrhea part... The article states that some infectious disease MDs have taken normal poop outta some poor sap's turd cutter, threw it in a blender with some saline, strained it out, diluted it, then jammed it up the infected persons keyster, and presto!! C.Diff solved!! Who in the name of Zeus' Butthole comes up with something like that?!?!?!?! Amazing stuff really, if you sit back and really think about it. Normal fluora translpanted into a sick one, allowing the healthy bugs to overtake the bad ones. Let me know if either one of you wanna read it. Its quite eye opening. So, on a different note, hows life?? Im gonna get up and go for a bike ride in the am, then some lifting. I woulda done it tonight, but I got a wicked headache. SO, Im bout to go meemees. Talk to yas later. Oh, and congrats on the DEA # c-note!

2 comments:

c said...

Well, i h'ain't heard of culturing, then ramming said good guys retro; but you definitely want yer inpatients on some sort of happy biotic whilst mainlining the big guns. That sounds like a good idear to me. i mean, C diff is just a superinfection (as you say) from killing off the competition. Adding the competition back in makes for a smooth-running (i.e. non-diarrheal) free market without the oligarchies and ruthless dictators. i'd bet that works way better than peg or j-tube placements, or the scorched earth management pts usually get. i'd like to read that article.

Pappa G said...

F@&#king sick.