London - It may sound like the most unappealing treatment available, but a European study has concluded that inserting faecal material from a healthy person into the gut of somebody with severe diarrhoea may cure their problem better than antibiotics. The study, which appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved patients who had repeated bouts of diarrhoea caused by a bacterium known as Clostridium difficile, which can take over the intestines after antibiotic treatment has killed off the beneficial bacteria found in the gut. About 3 million people in the...
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