An 83-year-old woman from Guardbridge, Scotland, was saved from a potentially fatal super bug by ingesting feces from her daughter, according to The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper.
Ethel McEwan was near death from Clostridium Difficile, a bacteria that can cause severe colon infections, when she received the treatment, which involves feeding a close relative's liquid feces down a tube into the patient's stomach, the Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper, reported. McEwan's donor was her daughter.
The treatment restores the bacteria from the bug to levels that help the patient recover, according to The Telegraph.
"When you tell people about the treatment, they wrinkle their noses," McEwan told the Daily Record. "But it's not like they put it on a plate and have you eat it. You don't ever see or smell a thing."
-PATRICIO CHILE
