Despite the FDA’s ban, one Florida clinic is using a controversial “poop transplant” procedure to help treat people with various medical conditions, sources say. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that an unnamed clinic in Florida has been performing this strange transplant for patients around the country.
According to the Fecal Transplant Foundation, a poop transplant (also known as Fecal Microbiota Transplants) is a procedure in which “fecal matter, or stool, is collected from a tested donor, mixed with a saline or other solution, strained, and placed in a patient, by colonoscopy, endoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or enema.”
Essentially, the transplant uses someone else’s feces and transplants them into the colon of another person in order to replenish “good bacteria” that has been killed by antibiotics. When antibiotics are used in patients Clostridium difficile (also known as C. diff.) invades the colon and in turn, can cause debilitating and sometimes even fatal diarrhea.
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