Australian Doctor | Faecal transplants wipe out C. difficile
Faecal transplantation has taken a leap towards the mainstream, with the first randomised trial of the procedure finding it was effective against antibiotic-resistant diarrhoea.
Faecal transplantation has taken a leap towards the mainstream, with the first randomised trial of the procedure finding it was effective against antibiotic-resistant diarrhoea.
For years, hospitals have struggled to help patients overcome the life-threatening gut infection.
“It’s already happening in America,” Professor Thomas Borody, director of the Centre for Digestive Diseases told news.com.au.
Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool.
Prof. Thomas Borody is the founder and Medical Director of CDD. His keen interest in medical research led to the establishment of the Centre so as to provide both diagnostic procedures and effective treatments.
It’s one of medicine’s hot topics – that the microbes in our gut may contribute to hard-to-treat problems like allergies, auto immune disease, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and even obesity and diabetes.
Interview with Thomas Borody starts at 1h 19mins.
After surviving a near-fatal car accident, Kaitlin Hunter found herself battling a devastating bacterial infection in her colon that also threatened her life.
YOU’VE heard of sperm banks and blood banks – but what about stool banks? “Contrary to popular belief, stool has no waste in it – it’s a mass of good bacteria,” says Prof Borody, who does one to six transplants a week in his Five Dock clinic. “The incoming bacteria are capable of killing bad […]