What the fuck?? Was he getting pubic hair or something??Originally Posted by queenaevadamthng
What the fuck?? Was he getting pubic hair or something??
Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.
It's a gross topic but a serious problem. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. The germ causes nausea, cramping and diarrhea so bad it is often disabling. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections.
Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants — giving infected people stool from a healthy donor — can restore that balance. But they're given through expensive, invasive procedures like colonoscopies or throat tubes. Doctors also have tried giving the stool through enemas but the treatment doesn't always take hold.
There even are YouTube videos on how to do a similar treatment at home via an enema. A study in a medical journal of a small number of these "do-it-yourself" cases suggests the approach is safe and effective.
Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, devised a better way — a one-time treatment custom-made for each patient.
Donor stool, usually from a relative, is processed in the lab to take out food and extract the bacteria and clean it. It is packed into triple-coated gel capsules so they won't dissolve until they reach the intestines.
"There's no stool left — just stool bugs. These people are not eating poop," and there are no smelly burps because the contents aren't released until they're well past the stomach, Louie said.
Days before starting the treatment, patients are given an antibiotic to kill the C-diff. On the morning of the treatment, they have an enema so "the new bacteria coming in have a clean slate," Louie said.
It takes 24 to 34 capsules to fit the bacteria needed for a treatment, and patients down them in one sitting. The pills make their way to the colon and seed it with the normal variety of bacteria.
Louie described 27 patients treated this way on Thursday at IDWeek, an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco. All had suffered at least four C-diff infections and relapses, but none had a recurrence after taking the poop pills.
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poop pills? And I thought I had heard it all
My mom and sister both had C-diff from hospital stays last year. That shit (pun intended) is no joke. I for one am very happy about the new poopy pill.
I've been reading about it this morning. It actually seems like a great medical breakthrough. They are saying that it cured all the patients in the test group.
Yup. Pretty awesome!!
Birthday Cake Attacked In Wasington Courthouse
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.r...nb_splitPage=1
(CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Ore. - A man was arrested at a Southwest Washington courthouse Tuesday after he smashed a 9-year-old's birthday cake in a scuffle caught on surveillance video, reports CBS affiliate KOIN.
A woman reportedly brought a cake for her daughter into the Cowliz County Hall of Justice courthouse, to keep her dog from eating it in the car.
Soon after the woman put the cake on a table, a man walking right behind her, identified as 50-year-old Robert Fredrickson, reportedly smashed his hand into it and ate it. A deputy askedFredrickson to stop but he continued, lunging at the cake instead.
Deputies reportedly took the man to the ground and wrestled him before handcuffing him.KOIN reports the Fredrickson was arrested on third-degree theft charges, a misdemeanor. A local grocery offered to replace the cake.
Happy birthday to the ground!
Haha that's brilliant Ron.
A poop pill...glad it works and those suffering get the relief needed.
Instead of telling someone to eat shit, just hand them the miracle poop pill. Eat shit, literally.
Fibro Fog has taken over. I am in a constant state of dyscognition so please excuse my retardation.
'The worst things in the world are justified by belief'- Raised by Wolves SOI
"Your life is short, it's the longest thing you'll ever do/ the worse the curse was that your dreams came true/
God is a mirror in which each man sees himself/ Hell is place where you don't need anyone's help"
~You got to cry with out weeping. Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice~
A Pierre police officer used a stun gun on an 8-year-old girl apparently threatening to stab herself. Police Chief Bob Grandpre told the Argus Leader three officers were called Friday night after someone reported a suicidal 8-year-old girl who had stabbed herself in the leg. He says she was holding a 4 1/2-inch knife to her chest, refused to drop it, turned the knife toward an officer who approached her and then put it back to her chest. Grandpre says that's when the officer used his Taser. The chief says there were no stab wounds on her leg and the girl was not injured. The girl's father says the officer should be disciplined for using excessive force. He says Tasers are for adults, not 8-year-old girls.
http://www.blackhillsfox.com/2013/10...-year-old-girl
Um, uh oh.
yeah, next time let her stab herself. That'll teach her!
I like the way that maybe just overpowering an 8-year old didn't even pop into your head.
BUT SHE HAD A KNIFE!!!
Hell. We've got 3 adults (probably men given the demographics of the Pierre PD) dealing with a dangerous, armed 8 yo girl. I don't know why one of them didn't buy her a coke and ask her about Miley or teh Bieber. I suspect they could have got her to put down the knife.I like the way that maybe just overpowering an 8-year old didn't even pop into your head.
BUT SHE HAD A KNIFE!!!
It's such a joke.
You give some people a weapon they can't stand not to try it out.
Oh, they're horrible, but the people that cheer them on get a side-eye too. (punker)
I'm just glad the kid didn't off herself. I don't like to monday morning quarterback incidents i'm not on, personally. It's more obnoxious to me people always side against the police without hearing both sides or being there.
Maybe she got more serious with her intent when they got closer, and this was the only safe way to get her to drop the knife. I dunno, I wasn't there. But I have been involved in a similar incident with a kid they tried to talk down and he stabbed himself in the neck the second they got close to him and almost died.
In the time it takes you to get close enough to overpower, someone with the intent to self harm can do serious damage.
These are excellent points.I'm just glad the kid didn't off herself. I don't like to monday morning quarterback incidents i'm not on, personally. It's more obnoxious to me people always side against the police without hearing both sides or being there.
Maybe she got more serious with her intent when they got closer, and this was the only safe way to get her to drop the knife. I dunno, I wasn't there. But I have been involved in a similar incident with a kid they tried to talk down and he stabbed himself in the neck the second they got close to him and almost died.
In the time it takes you to get close enough to overpower, someone with the intent to self harm can do serious damage.
Yea, sorry, but when you side with this person tazing an 8-year old or shooting some unarmed dude, seems like it's time to rethink priorities.I'm just glad the kid didn't off herself. I don't like to monday morning quarterback incidents i'm not on, personally. It's more obnoxious to me people always side against the police without hearing both sides or being there.
Maybe she got more serious with her intent when they got closer, and this was the only safe way to get her to drop the knife. I dunno, I wasn't there. But I have been involved in a similar incident with a kid they tried to talk down and he stabbed himself in the neck the second they got close to him and almost died.
Also, they 'Monday morning quarterback" every aspect of my life. Fuck em.
I'm not automatically saying they're wrong. I might wonder why they couldn't stop her if they didn't. Then again, I don't expect them to save anyone, so it's a moot point. I'm not the guy that asks "Oh, they couldn't help??" cause I don't think it's even in the job description.
I deal with a lot of suicidal people at work, and people high on random shit too. They're unpredictable. Even the little ones.
We took a 7 year old on a 5150 hold that told me she was going to find where the mental health worker lived and burn down her house because she didn't like her face.
That's awesome.I deal with a lot of suicidal people at work, and people high on random shit too. They're unpredictable. Even the little ones.
We took a 7 year old on a 5150 hold that told me she was going to find where the mental health worker lived and burn down her house because she didn't like her face.
awesome til you're in the back of an ambulance for 3 hours with someone that is staring at you like the kid from the omen.That's awesome.
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