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[url= http://www.nature.com/news/faecal-transplants-succeed-in-clinical-trial-1.12227 ]I s**t you not[/url]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:36 am
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"The volunteers were randomized to receive either an infusion of faeces — delivered to the small intestine via a tube threaded through the nose "

nice.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:39 am
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Old news to us fans of faecal transplants.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15113440


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:40 am
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pretty (actually, poor choice of word) bloody effective treatment though - after all, it's exactly what's missing in many of those patients

(we're wondering about using it where I work)


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:48 am
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Volunteers who are testing the Norovirus vaccine are infected by being given a drink of very dilute diarrhoea.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:57 am
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Volunteers who are testing the Norovirus vaccine are infected by being given a drink of very dilute diarrhoea.

I heard that as well recently. Got me wondering what the financial incentive would have to be, to allow myself to be given the Norovirus voluntarily.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 9:58 am
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globalti, I think that trumps the transplant. Really trying to stop my brain attempting to grasp the idea. Some people should never have watched Jackass.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 11:36 am
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Nobel Prize, anyone ?
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall ]After failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Marshall, after having a baseline endoscopy done, drank a Petri dish containing cultured H. pylori, expecting to develop, perhaps years later, an ulcer[/url]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:29 pm
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I don't suppose drinking dilute diarrhoea is any different from eating a sandwich with poo on your hands, it's just the thought of it....


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:46 pm
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If anyone wants to try this, I can certainly assist - at about 30 minute intervals at present.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:47 pm
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I'm getting faecal implants in my cheeks to give me more defined cheekbones..

Reminds of Blue Jam's urine transfusions


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:48 pm
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Did you see that annoying bloke on the gadget show drinking out of the public toilet? Yuck.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:54 pm
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They should advertise for donors on here...there are plenty of people who are full of shit. 😛


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:57 pm
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(we're wondering about using it where I work)

Debt collector?


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 2:02 pm
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Volunteers who are testing the Norovirus vaccine are infected by being given a drink of very dilute diarrhoea.

Homeopathy at it's finest.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 2:08 pm