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Poop Banks

Warning Do Not Read While Eating! I was reading in Sept. 2013 issue of Reader Digest that the future holds... Wait for it... POOP BANKS, just like blood banks and sperm banks. You heard me right, POO POO Banks! After getting over the "What the @#&*" I continued to read on. You see there is a nasty antibiotic-resistant intestinal infection called Clostridium Difficile , but I will call it "C. Diff" from now on. Did you know that 3 million people are infected annually, with about 30,000 people dying from it each year! Because the use of human stool transplants, (wretch) 85 to 90 percent of patients who have had multiple episodes of C. Diff. have been found to have remarkably positive results. Now there is a group that is very excited about these findings. We call these special people, "Gastrointestinal Scientists," or "G.I. Docs". My hat is off to the one that thought up this treatment and then proposed it to other G.I Docs with a straigh