Promise Of Poop By Jop De Vrieze: Article Analysis
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Section A
In article A, The Promise of Poop, Jop De Vrieze talks about how fecal transplants are beneficial and can actually help treat diseases. Vrieze introduces Dr. Max Niewdorp, a doctor whose 81-year-old patient happened to develop a bacterium called Clostridium difficile. Because of this, Nieuwdorp then decided to do a fecal transplant on the woman. In order to do this procedure, the doctor must have access to a donor’s feces. Once he has it, then the feces gets blended and squirt into the woman’s small intestine in order to flush out the Clostridium difficile. After the procedure was completed, she was cured. This new finding caused many patients and doctors all around to try out this procedure. Due to Nieuwdorp’s findings on fecal transplants, he’s convinced that there will be many more cures of C difficile.
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Section B…show more content… In this article it is found that not only can fecal transplants cure diseases, it can “re-establish the balance of nature” to flush out the small intestine to cleanse the body of any destruction that may have been caused by other treatments. Fecal microbiota transplantation is found to be very effective due to a trial that was held by van Nood et al. He found that due to this procedure, 81 % of patients were cured of C difficle. In conclusion, his study had strongly positive results, which encouraged many other doctors to create similar trials to help cure many other