Doctors have started using fecal transplants to treat patients with colitis. In this video, Dr. Robin Miller explains what fecal transplants are and how they're used.
A viewer wants to know that there's a treatment called Fecal Transplant to treat diarrhea and it occurs as a result of taking antibiotics. Is this really true? Yes, believe it or not. Gastroenterology doctors have found that fecal transplant is very effective in curing antibiotic-associated colitis.
They usually take stool from a family member, turn it into an emulsion and transplant it into the patient using colonoscopy or a feeding tube. And you were talking about this the last week as we dumb founded, but it worked. How often is this used? Well it's just starting to be used by as people become more and more resistant to antibiotics my guess is this will be used more frequently.
Got to really love you family members. It's the ultimate Probiotics so think of it that way.
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