Stool transplant???

[Sadie04]

We had a rep from our ID department come to a unit staff meeting to talk about infection control and she told us about a patient on another unit who was treated with antibiotics for C Diff for months unsucessfully. Finally they tried a "stool transplant," where a family member 'donated' a stool sample to transplant into the C Diff patient's lower GI tract to help restore the normal flora. Can you imagine? I never heard of such a thing

[kimmicoobug]

My husband said he would gladly give me his sh*t if it meant I could get better. Though when I told him I would do the same for him, he got a lil green.

[manna, BSN, RN]

Ewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that's just about all I have to say about that)

[TraumaQueen]

You guys are funny. :)

It really is kind of gross though. :) The stool sample used in our unit reportably had whole pieces of corn in it. :)

[lady_jezebel]

Read that jounal article someone posted about this procedure...

People can die from long-term infection with C.diff (pseudomembranous colitis). The cure rate with this procedure (stool transplant, ie.stool slurry infused into pt like an enema) has almost a complete cure rate. And in about 4 days!!

Surely a little grossness is worth that!

[HazeK]

OK, which would be worse?

C. Diff or stool transplant?

Yuck!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

(Mental note, skip this thread while eating lol)

[GI Issue Nurse]

HazeK said:

OK, which would be worse?

C. Diff or stool transplant?

Yuck!

C diff would be much worse than a stool transplant!! You don't drink it!

Just think....C diff can kill you or make you wish that it would since you life is so miserable. A stool enema and cha-ching you're well in a couple of days!

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Well, that's just about the gnarliest thing I've ever heard of........what I wanna know is, how do the nurses and doctors who DO this, uh, procedure get through it without hurling?!

I guess maybe this got to me because my own little tummy has been upset for a couple of days............BLECCCCCCCHHHHHH.

[Agnus]

HerEyes73 said:

So, I guess my hubby's good for something then huh? 

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I'll tell you what is more gross. Someone with C-Diff who also has elevated amonia levels. You know how we treat elevated amonia. I had the patient. I was real popular with the CNAs.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Uptoherern, RN]

we once had a guy come in the er, and said basically, that he thought he had "Bugs" in his poop. So we get a stool sample. The guy acted funny the entire time. wouldn't look us in the eye, left ama before labs were done, said he had to "get back to work", looked like a homeless/mental person. Anyways....he left. Then called back about 45 minutes later and states that he wants to make sure that we "do ALL the tests", and is sounding rather distressed. Of course, I had to ask him why did we need to "run ALL the tests?" His answer, "because it is not mine.....someone put it into me while I was asleep." :rotfl:

Maybe HE had c diff too! (home experiment?) :)

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

that is more than I want to think about