{"id":2129,"date":"2009-08-18T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:54:57","slug":"wanted-to-post-this-before-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2009\/08\/18\/wanted-to-post-this-before-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted to post this before lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Interesting” story today in the WSJ about the consequences of broad spectrum antibiotic use<\/a>. My favorite bit? I’m so <\/em>glad you asked.
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He added some healthy mice who hadn’t been treated with antibiotics to live with those that had been treated. Mice practice coprophagia\u2014which means they eat each other’s feces.<\/p>\n

Compared with mice that didn’t have a healthy cagemate added, the diversity of the gut microbial community in the mice that ingested normal feces was restored to normal.<\/p>\n

That seems to echo findings of a retrospective study on humans in 2003. The study looked at 18 patients over a nine-year period who had recurrent C. diff and who had stool transplants performed.<\/p>\n

In this case, doctors took stool from a person close to the patient, such as a spouse, and inserted it through a tube into the patient’s nose and from there to the stomach.<\/p>\n

The study found 15 patients had no more recurrences. Two patients died of unrelated illnesses and one patient had a single recurrence of C. diff after the transplant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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