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Did Over 1,200 Canadians Needlessly Die of “Clostridium Difficile” Infection?

According to the “Canadian Medical Association Journal” there have been at least 7,004 cases of Clostridium difficile across Quebec, a province of Canada, over the past two years. Horrifically, 1,270 people died after contracting the hospital-acquired infection, although some of the deaths may have been due to concurrent illnesses. —
Did the C. difficile patients needlessly die?

“I’m highly suspicious that many of these deaths were preventable,” says Dr. Bradley Hennenfent. “This may be an example of how socialized medicine moves too slowly to cure people.”

C. difficile can cause diarrhea, and a condition known as pseudomembranous enterocolitis, which can be fatal.

There is a treatment for C. difficile that has appeared in the medical literature many times, but has a high “yuk factor” and thus may often be overlooked. In some situations, patients may not even be told about the treatment.

The treatment is called fecal transfusion and means that the feces of a healthy person is transfused into the bowel of a sick person to cure them of their infection.

The first reference to fecal transfusion appeared in the medical literature over 45 years ago in an article entitled "Fecal Enema as an Adjunct in the Treatment of Pseudomembranous Enterocolitis,” in the journal, "Surgery."

In 1981, an article entitled: "Pseudomembranous enterocolitis: Mechanism of Restoring Floral Homeostasis" described 16 incurable patients with C. difficile pseudomembranous enterocolitis who were treated with fecal enemas and 13 patients dramatically improved.

Papers on fecal transfusion have appeared in the medical literature at least 17 times, reporting on at least 84 patients with C. difficile infection. The success rate hovers around 86%.

“I’ve interviewed experts in modern day fecal transfusion, and they all agree that fecal transfusion is highly appropriate and successful for C. difficile patients,” says Dr. Hennenfent.

In short, fecal transfusion is well documented and its benefits have been touted not only for C. difficile infection, but also for chronic constipation, ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel disease.

The bowel flora can be considered a virtual organ of the human body, one that is essential for normal health.

Doing a fecal transplant is like doing a heart transplant, kidney transplant, or liver transplant; however, fecal transfusion, which can be done by an enema, is a lot less invasive, doesn’t involve major surgery, and there are no problems with rejection.

Besides recovering from a life and death infection, people have reported dramatic benefits after fecal transfusion treatment for C. difficile, including regaining the capability of taking antibiotics without C. difficile recurrence.

“More doctors need to get involved in researching fecal transfusion,” says Dr. Hennenfent, “but in the past they have been discouraged by socialized health care systems, hospital bureaucracy, and by the press, which has called doctors who do the procedure some pretty unflattering names.”

“Imagine the helpless people who suffered in intensive care and then died from C. difficile when a potentially curative therapy was easily available.”

Dr. Hennenfent is author of the book, "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery."

The Fecal Transfusion Foundation is devoted to spreading the word about this life-saving treatment.

www.FecalTransfusionFoundation.org