As a young female college student, Daniell Koepke suffers from a less dignified condition – irritable bowel syndrome.
This condition is a gastrointestinal disorder with symptoms including abdominal pain, bloating, gas, indigestion and severe constipation.
In general, irritable bowel syndrome is not life-threatening, but it will affect the patient's work and life to a large extent, especially for a young and beautiful female college student, this disease is really more uncomfortable than death.
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What's even more troublesome is that this disease is not only tormenting, but also extremely difficult to treat.
Until now, the medical community has not found its cause, high pressure, high sensitivity to internal organs, inflammation, immune dysfunction...... Either of these conditions can trigger this gastrointestinal disorder.
If the cause could not be found, the doctors could not provide effective treatment, so the doctors only prescribed antibiotics to Danielle like candy.
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In this way, Danielle underwent treatment for 5 years and took medicine for 5 years.
But these antibiotics not only did not help her condition, but also killed the good bacteria in her gut, causing her gut health to deteriorate......
As her condition worsened, Danielle had to cut back on the foods she ate that would make her uncomfortable, and by the end of the day, she had less and less to eat, and now she was living on less than 15 foods.
This also made Danielle very worried, "I don't know what it's like to eat carefree and not worry about a stomachache......"
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But this is only a symptom and not a cure.
Experts explain that on the lining of our colon, there are trillions of microorganisms that feed on the food we eat, and different foods feed different microorganisms, so when the variety of food eaten is reduced, there will be fewer and fewer microorganisms in the intestines, which will also affect human health.
Danielle really had no choice but to decide to try a fecal transplant.
The so-called fecal transplantation is to mix the feces of healthy donors with saline, and then send them into the recipient's gastrointestinal tract through enema, oral capsules, etc., so that the patient's intestines are refilled with "good microorganisms" and help the patient "cure".
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However, a fecal transplant is not a traditional treatment for irritable bowel syndrome, and doctors usually do not give her a transplant, so Danielle has to do it herself.
In regular medical institutions, the hospital will check the feces in advance to eliminate various hidden dangers, and there is definitely no medical protection for DIY transplants at home.
In the story, Danielle has no choice but to take risks.
In short, after doing a good job of psychological construction, the transplant begins.
Danielle chose two donors, her brother and her boyfriend.
First, Danielle made fecal capsules from the feces donated by her brother and took them.
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Miraculously, although Danielle did not change her eating habits, she began to slowly gain weight, and even for the first time in three years, she was able to go to the toilet naturally.
But before Danielle could be happy, she found out that she also had acne.
Why do you say "also"? Because her brother had a history of hormonal acne, Danielle didn't have it, and after receiving a fecal transplant, she was tricked......
The doctor explained that bacteria in the stool may trigger inflammation in the recipient's body, affecting their metabolism and immune response, all of which can lead to hormonal changes that can promote bacterial growth and lead to skin acne.
Almost all of us have this bacterium on our skin, but it's usually dormant, in other words, it's my brother's that activates it......
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What's the matter? Let's switch to a different donor.
This time Danielle transplanted her boyfriend's feces, and after a few months, her bowel function improved and her acne healed!
However, she suffered from depression again......
That's right, this time it's my boyfriend's feces that are to blame.
According to research, some bacteria in the gut have a role in suppressing depression, and after Danielle received feces from her boyfriend, the "antidepressant bacteria" in her body seemed to be eliminated, which also caused her to suffer from the worst depression of her life.
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No way, by comparison, acne is always a little better than depression......
So she switched back to her brother's feces, and within a week, her depression was gone.
What to say, depression for a while, irritable bowel for a while, and acne, I feel that this fecal transplant is like a transformation, which is really amazing.
In fact, fecal transplants can not only "spread disease", but can even transmit hormonal changes across sex.
In 2006, Canadian teenager Charlie Curtis was diagnosed with Crohn's disease caused by ulcerative colitis, and at its worst, he had to run more than 40 times a day to the toilet and lose 30 kilograms in two months.
Later, he received a fecal transplant from his mother,
Although his condition improved, he began to experience excessive sweating, hot flashes, emotional instability, and went through menopause with his mother......
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In this way, there are indeed many mysteries that need to be studied in the fecal transplantation technique.
Studies have shown that a fecal transplant may even improve social skills, sleep disturbances, and even Parkinson's disease symptoms, and some people have regrown their hair through this technique.
It's just that the current research on fecal transplantation in the medical community is not deep enough, so fecal transplantation cannot become a conventional treatment, and in the final analysis, even Danielle can only be called a fluke success case.
However, it is believed that with the deepening of research, people will have more understanding of this technology, and this technology will be popularized more safely. It is also recommended here that friends who are worried about their own hair do not take risks and try oral feces of others......