Don't Put Me on This Transplant List

There are certain things that we were all taught when we were younger and they stay with us throughout our lives. Wash your hands after going to the bathroom was pounded into our heads over and over both at home and at school. And for heaven's sake, when handling chicken make sure to wash your hands, the knives, the counter.....God only knows what will happen if you don't do that. And don't forget to wash the fresh fruit, in fact there are now products sold in the supermarket that you spray onto fruit to ward off all the smarmy germs that may have found their way into the produce department.

We all know this. Prevention, prevention, prevention. Chlorox wipes thrive in American households. Believing in all this, an article I recently read in the health section on Yahoo knocked me for a loop. http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/09/1704381.aspx

Apparently there is an intestinal infection known as C-Dif, and some patients do not respond well to current treatments, so instead they are offered an alternative one, are you ready for this......... the new treatment just happens to be a fecal transplant.

Yes if you suffer from C-dif and normal treatments have not worked you can opt for treatment number 2, so to speak. Of course, you need to find a donor, can you imagine having to ask someone? The medical community suggests a close family member such as a spouse, so this is how I imagine the conversation may go, "Honey, I been taking your crap for a few years now, but now I really need to take your crap."

So back to the cleanliness. Do you think we encourage this disease because as a Nation we have become too squeaky clean? The whole theory about the fecal transplant (the treatment: they thin the specimen in order to liquefy it and then introduce it via a tube in your nose, Ewwwwwwwww) is to introduce bacteria back into your colon. I say let's cut the crap and just get a little dirty once in a while. My Nana always said you need to eat a peck of dirt before you die, somehow the mud pie sounds good to me, I think I'd opt for that before the fecal transplant.

On the plus side, now you can tell all of those folks that you know who are just full of Sh**, what they can do with it..........Donate!