and two girls?

Dr MacConnachie inserts a tube up the patient's nose and down to the stomach.

I'd imagine you get put under before this part, but imagine waking up in the middle of it.

Have you asked Atheistoclast?

So I guess if your doctor tells you to "eat shit and live", you shouldn't immediately deck him then?

xtraordinaryevidence wrote:

Dr MacConnachie inserts a tube up the patient's nose and down to the stomach.

I'd imagine you get put under before this part, but imagine waking up in the middle of it.

From my experience with tubes through noses into stomachs and further, they generally want you to be awake during the process.

Oh man, you've put some disturbing images in my mind Animavore, on top of what's already in your post!

One day there will be 'shit donor centres' similar to the ones for blood. First you'll get a quick test to make sure that you can handle that amount of bacteria being removed from your body. Then it will be removed using a reverse enema syringe, in a room with ten other people doing the same thing. After that you sit in the waiting room for 10 minutes to make sure there are no adverse effects, for instance your sphincter failing temporarily. After that you're encouraged to come back in three months to donate again. All through this you're constantly being thanked and bombarded with messages that your donation is directly saving up to three lives.

Then after medical and technological breakthroughs, it is discovered that by using a special machine they can extract particular bacteria that can be used in a whole range of products. The shit is extracted normally, some of the bacteria separated out, then the remaining shit returned to your body. And since most of the bacteria is returned, you're able to donate this way every two weeks instead of just every three months!

Cool. This looks really promising. If further trials confirm these results, I hope the treatment turns more mainstream. I'm intrigued by the mention of other possible applications. If it was available for relatively minor stuff like the irritable bowel syndrome, I'd do it and damn the yuk factor. It's just gut bacteria. I've had probiotic capsules before. :shrug:

Can somebody explain to me why the tube has to go through the nose rather than the mouth?

@Animavore and xtrordinaryevidence:
@Gallstones: I remember that. Loved the title!

katja z wrote:Can somebody explain to me why the tube has to go through the nose rather than the mouth?

Reduces the gagging reflex as the tube goes in. There may well be other reasons aside this.

Stagman wrote:

katja z wrote:Can somebody explain to me why the tube has to go through the nose rather than the mouth?

Reduces the gagging reflex as the tube goes in. There may well be other reasons aside this.

Thanks. This makes sense, although it makes me wonder why this isn't the case in gastroscopy, where the endoscope goes in through the mouth. But that's another topic.

Animavore wrote:
Did you ever see the thickness of one of them? You won't get that down someone's nose.

No, thankfully I've been spared that So that was one of them silly questions then, wasn't it?

Where do you think the 'pro-biotic' element in those pro-biotic yoghurts comes from?

Animavore wrote:I wonder did people get the same yuk factor when blood donation first came on the scene?
I never found the idea of blood yucky as my granddad gave it all my life. Even in school I always had red pencils which said The owner is a donor which I got off him and my nieces now use which they get off me, carrying on the tradition.

But I can't imagine donating my poo. And I have that high-grade shit, too. My fibreous and spicy diet means I always have good, healthy looking logs of a light brown colour which are guaranteed to harbour wholesome, honest to goodness bacteria. Sort of like the Amish. But I'm just not giving that shit away.

I would be fine with donating my poop.

For some special people, I'd personally deliver it, and even help introduce it to their digestive system.

Oops. Sorry to barge in I got redirected from a German porn channel.

Is introduction via the gastric route the best method? Wouldn't a percentage of, or select species of the beneficials be killed by the stomach acid? I'd think direct to the bowel would be better. Or even enteric coated boluses.

The only efficient way to get to most of the small intestine is through the stomach. Introduction through the large bowel just doesn't work to get the stuff where it needs to be.