doctor not in favor of fecal transplantation

Christine1946

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Posted 3/25/2010 1:17 PM (GMT 0)

I asked my GI doctor about this option yesterday and he said there is the possibility of contracting Hepatitis with this method. His responce was..."Just think, you are getting someone else's waste products into your system." There must be some way they are able to purify this system.

killcolitis

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Posted 3/25/2010 1:21 PM (GMT 0)

That's why the donor's stool is supposed to be checked before you use it.

Dr-A

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Posted 3/25/2010 2:04 PM (GMT 0)

If your donor is a stranger, yes. If I am doing my wife or my 18 month old son, no.

killcolitis

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Posted 3/25/2010 2:58 PM (GMT 0)

I'm not sure what they test for exactly, but there may be things your wife's a carrier of that you don't know about? Maybe your son too? I'm not sure, I'd like more details about that actually.

subdued

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Posted 3/25/2010 4:47 PM (GMT 0)

That's why I used my six-month old granddaughter's poo.

We are so concerned with getting some disease from someone's poo. Yet we have unprotected sex and nurse our babies all the time. Why aren't we afraid of getting some disease from them or of giving them some disease? Because we know them and we know ourselves. It's the same with using someone's poo. We aren't going to use untested poo from some stranger.

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