In-home fecal infusions in Calgary by a doctor

[Hua Kul]

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I came across an article from the January 1, 2009 edition of Internal Medicine News about Dr. Thomas J. Louie of Calgary, who has developed a home based procedure for fecal infusion, with great success.

http://www.articlearchives.com/medicine ... 301-1.html

The article summarized the treatment of 48 patients. 46 recovered fully, one relapsed after using a ppi, and the other one was expected to have a repeat procedure. One interesting note, 40% of patients who received feces from a non-genetically related donor developed IBS symptoms which lasted 3-6 months but none of the recipients of feces from genetic relations did.

God Bless,
--Hua Kul

[carrie]

Dr. Louie does the procedure outside of the hospital as they will not approve the procedure as a treatment from the hospital. The fecal infusion is well accepted in Alberta and talked about frequently in healthcare but to date the procedure is not approved by our Healthcare system.

[trob25]

Is there any healthcare system in the world that officially approves of these procedures? I think it's well proven that they have a stunning success rate, eliminating the usage of tons of Flagyl/Vanco and most seem to have no or shorter attacks of PI-IBS after having it done. Yet it appears private insurers in the US don't cover it and many docs here have never heard of it/think it's insane. Carrie indicates it's not covered in Canada and there was someone earlier indicating it's not approved of in Western Europe either. Is it at least covered under Australia NHS due to Dr. Borody?

I'm not sure what the problem is with this becoming the mainline treatment for C-Diff that recurs more than once. Why waste time with months of pain and medications when you could just have this done and be better in 3 days?

[Bobbie]

This site doesn't endorse any procedures/and or products.

Although, the infusions are supposed to have a high "cure" rate, there is always some risk & some failures. Again, "Buyer beware."

However, if I were desperate, I would try almost anything -- after a lot of research & doublechecking.

[beth22]

Buyer beware is right. You might just trade one problem for another like I did. Like anything else, it works for some and not for others.