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Lives Changed With Donated Poop
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment that's made using donated human poop. The treatment, called Rebyota, contains gut bacteria collected from the stool of healthy human donors and is approved for the prevention of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection. Delivering the liquid treatment into a patient's rectum through a tube, doctors can help return balance to the patient's stomach microbiome, the community of microbes living in the lower digestive tract. Rebyota is approved for use in people ages 18 and older who have recently been treated for recurrent infections with the bacterium Clostridioides difficile, commonly called C. diff for short. C. diff can rapidly take over the gut if the normal microbiome gets disrupted. As a result of antibiotic use. People aged 65 and older, those with weakened immune systems and those who have recently stayed in a hospital or nursing home face the highest risk of infection. As C. diff multiplies in the gut, the bacteria release toxins that trigger diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and inflammation of the colon. Sometimes, the infections can lead to organ failure and even death. C. diff is estimated to cause about half a million infections in the U.S. each year. Beware, about 1 in 6 patients who develop the infection will get it again within two to eight weeks of recovering. These recurrent infections can be treated with antibiotics, but the drugs don't always work against aggressive, antibiotic-resistant strains of C. diff. They can further disrupt the microbiome and sometimes worsen the infection. The most common side effects of Rebyota were abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal bloating, gas and nausea. The same thing you get from C Diff. And although the donated feces is carefully screened for pathogens, the treatment does carry some risk of transmitting infectious agents, and it may also contain food allergens. It’s a new treatment, hope for some people.
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