'Poop' pills can treat C. difficile, Calgary doctor says
'Poop' pills can treat C. difficile, Calgary doctor says - Calgary - CBC News
Forget the enema bag and the tube that snakes down the throat to the intestines — the future of treatment for persistent Clostridium difficile infections may come in pill form.
A Calgary doctor who has been treating difficult-to-cure C. difficile for years with fecal transplants is reporting he has created what are in essence "poop" pills — and they do the trick.
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Tom Louie, a pioneer in the use of fecal transplants for C. difficile in Canada, has treated 27 patients with his handmade pills, and all 27 were cleared of their infections.
"They came in for lunch on an empty stomach ... and took 24 to 30 pills on average," Louie, said of the regimen, which he described to fellow scientists at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
IDWeek is an annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the U.S. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
C. difficile-related deaths highest in recent years - Montreal - CBC News
C. difficile-related deaths since 2004 in Quebec
2004-2005 – 1,034
2005-2006 – 522
2006-2007 – 561
2007-2008 – 335
2008-2009 – 457
2009-2010 – 478
2010-2011 – 619
'Poop' pills can treat C. difficile, Calgary doctor says - Calgary - CBC News
Forget the enema bag and the tube that snakes down the throat to the intestines — the future of treatment for persistent Clostridium difficile infections may come in pill form.
A Calgary doctor who has been treating difficult-to-cure C. difficile for years with fecal transplants is reporting he has created what are in essence "poop" pills — and they do the trick.
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Tom Louie, a pioneer in the use of fecal transplants for C. difficile in Canada, has treated 27 patients with his handmade pills, and all 27 were cleared of their infections.
"They came in for lunch on an empty stomach ... and took 24 to 30 pills on average," Louie, said of the regimen, which he described to fellow scientists at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
IDWeek is an annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the U.S. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
C. difficile-related deaths highest in recent years - Montreal - CBC News
C. difficile-related deaths since 2004 in Quebec
2004-2005 – 1,034
2005-2006 – 522
2006-2007 – 561
2007-2008 – 335
2008-2009 – 457
2009-2010 – 478
2010-2011 – 619
