The 80-year-old man patient who's suffering from a bacterial infection in his colon received a "poo injection" to potentially save his life.
It may sounds icky, but it was the third faecal transplant within six years.
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In a viral Facebook post, Queensland Health said it "carried out the hospital's third faecal transplant within six years, this time upon an 80-year-old Cairns man who has been diagnosed with a Clostridium difficile."
It is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea, nausea, fever, stomach pain, and can progress and become fatal if left untreated.
It was in August 18 when the patient was treated with faecal microbiota transplant (FMT), a procedure where stool from a screened healthy donor is processed into an FMT product and put into the gut of the patient.
According to Dr McGowan, it shows that FMT have an 80-90 percent success rate in treating patients with C. diff.
The procedure has been proven effective to treat people with intestinal conditions, Cairns Hospital medical registrar Dr. Cathal MCGowan, said.
Currently, only "one company in Australia are manufacturing them since it has to be approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)," he said.
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