Would You Eat Someone Else's Shit As Medicine?

[Michaelangelica]

It’s not every day on Catalyst you get asked to do a story on crap. Literally. The working title for the story was “Poo Transplant”. I knew I’d be challenged at my next dinner party when someone would ask, “So Maryanne, what story are you working on at the moment?”

http://blogs.abc.net.au/catalyst/2011/07/human-probiotic-infusion.html

 

This is the astonishing story of a 61-year-old woman who was dying from a bowel infection and whose life was saved by a transplant of faeces! Yup, the stuff you find in baby's nappies.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/04/19/3194662.htm

 

Faecal transplants are fairly new, yet they show enormous promise for treating infected colons and persistent diarrhoea resulting from Clostridium difficile, a deadly superbug that invades weakened colons and is resistant to all but a few extremely powerful antibiotics.

http://www.continence.org.au/news.php/40/the-bottom-line-our-colon-is-a-colony

 

this is the guy doing it in Australia

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2862777.htm

 

 

 

 

[Michaelangelica]

Eucalyptus is toxic and indigestible to most mammals.

But eating poo might make you able to eat it?

This is the story of Pooh Bear...No, not Eeyore and Tigger's mate, but a cute little baby koala who liked to eat his mummy's poo. Koalas start off drinking yummy mummy's milk, but when they're about six months old it's time for eucalyptus leaves. The trouble is, they aren't born with the bacteria they need in their tummies to digest eucalyptus leaves. In fact, the leaves are like poison to a baby koala.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3191849.htm