1. If I were to contract the potentially fatal Clostridium difficile infection, I would much rather take Dr. Louie's "poop pills" as opposed to undergoing a fecal transplant. The science behind these pills is ground-breaking and beneficial to patients suffering from the disease. If I were to get this bacterial infection, taking a few pills would be much easier than going through fecal transplants, multiple enemas, etc. Although the pills sound disgusting, they are a lot cleaner than any other alternative method.
2. Researchers and scientists have made these pills by taking healthy fecal materials from a donor, usually a relative of the patient, and putting the material into a non-soluble capsule that will only dissolve in the stomach. The patient will not experience bad "poopy" breath or foul taste. In fact, Dr. Louie states that, "There's no stool left — just stool bugs. These people are not eating poop." People might prefer taking these pills because there is no mess, no hassle, and no interaction with straight up crap, literally.
3. The pill was designed to only dissolve in the lower intestine so that the antibiotic in the pill only kills detrimental germs without harming good cells and essential bacteria.
4. The future of these poop pills knows no bounds. Dr. Louie, "sees potential for the poop pills for other people with out-of-whack gut bacteria, such as hospitalized patients vulnerable to antibiotic-resistant germs." Researchers have also found a way to ship pills all over the world safely by freezing them. These methods wouldn't hurt the pill in any way, and the pill would still able to do it's job.
Kate I agree with you. I wouldn't want to take them because of what they are made of. However, I would rather take them than having to get a transplant. At first I was disgusted with the idea of "poop pills" but as I thought about it, I decided that if it was matter of life or death, then I would take them. I am so glad to hear that if a patient takes these pills, then their breath won't smell like waste or they won't have a foul taste in their mouths, after taking those pills
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I agree with you on the fact that you would take the pills because I would also to. I wouldn't want to deal with the pain and agony that the people with these type of stomach infections go through. I would take the pills also because it seems a lot easier to do then the alternatives to them. It is cool and great that scientists have discovered how to do this so people with these infections don't have to go through the other alternatives but the design of how they will not start dissolving until they hit the lower stomach.
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