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MRSA | C.diff superbug | 'Eat poo' cure for hospital bug hell | The Sun |HomePage|News
The Sun said:AN elderly woman who beat the C.diff superbug after agreeing to be fed someone else’s faeces declared yesterday: “I recommend the treatment.”
Ethel McEwen, 83, made a full recovery thanks to the natural “good bacteria” she ingested.
Her daughter Winnifred’s faeces were liquidised — then fed down a tube through the pensioner’s nose into her gut.
Ethel, of Guardbridge, Fife, underwent the drastic therapy in Glasgow after antibiotics failed to cure her.
She said: “People turn up their noses and think, ‘Oh my God’.
“But really it’s nothing. It isn’t horrible at all and there are certainly worse things.”
Ethel was a patient of Dr Alasdair McConnachie — Britain’s only faecal transplant therapist.
He admitted: “It is certainly a treatment of last resort for people who have tried all the other options.”