article_snippet.sent: A man stuck by a serious bowel infection has been cured after undergoing a faecal transplant, with stools donated by A man stuck by a serious bowel infection .
article_snippet.sent: It was then that specialists suggested a faecal transplant.
article_snippet.sent: Len Barnes, 57, from Stockton, has been cured of the severe bowel infection Clostridium difficile after undergoing a faecal transplant.
article_snippet.sent: The solution was then transplanted into Len Barnes gut via an endoscope - a long, thin, flexible tube that has a light source and a video camera at one end. '
article_snippet.sent: gastroenterologist Chris Wells, said: 'Faecal transplantation doesn't sound very appealing
article_snippet.sent: Transplanting faeces from one person to another does seem a bit unusual
article_snippet.sent: gastroenterologist Chris Wells said there had been a significant reduction in the number of C-diff cases in the trust over the past few years but it was reassuring to know that faecal transplant was now an option to treat the condition.
article_snippet.sent: In March last year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published new guidelines, naming faecal transplants as a recognised form of treatment for C-diff infections.
article_snippet.sent: In one study, infection came back in around one in 20 patients within five weeks, compared with more than half of the patients given antibiotics.
article_snippet.sent: In another study, infection came back in around one in 50 patients between 29 days and four years after faecal transplant.
article_snippet.sent: Nice concluded infection didn't make much difference if faecal transplant was from a relative or stranger, or if faecal transplant had been frozen or not.
highlights_snippet.sent: When antibiotics failed to work specialists suggested a faecal transplant .
  