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Letter: Faecal enema

Published 16 November 2005

From Don Sims

It was a great shame that Ken Green was ridiculed by his vet for suggesting a faecal enema for the treatment of his dog’s antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (29 October, p 23). Human physicians might have greeted the proposal with a little more understanding. The equivalent treatment has been shown to be effective in small numbers of people by researchers in Bergen, Norway, in 1998. Finding volunteers for larger-scale trials of the treatment might prove challenging, however.

Birmingham, UK

Issue no. 2526 published 19 November 2005

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