Patients with debilitating diarrhea have been finding relief from the bacteria-rich stool from the guts of healthy donors, usually close relatives. The procedure is a “last-ditch therapy” for patients whose condition hasn’t responded even to powerful expensive antibiotics such as vancomycin, ABC News said.
“This form of therapy has now reached primetime,” wrote Martin H. Floch, MD, a digestive disease specialist at the Yale School of Medicine in the Sept. 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.
Read the ABC News report on GI procedures.
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