You may want to sit down for this.
While there’s no shortage of stories of gracious people giving blood and donating organs, a new nonprofit is encouraging people to hand over their No. 2’s to help those with plaguing gastrointestinal conditions.
After watching a friend and relative with C. difficile infection, an aggressive intestinal bug, suffer through 18 months of ineffective treatments, a small group of microbiologists, public health advocates and concerned citizens founded OpenBiome in 2012.
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The vet had recurring episodes of C. difficile and his social worker reached out to the organization for help.
“She had expected to have to negotiate hard against a more traditional pharmaceutical organization for a discount, and was very glad we had the program,” Edelstein said. “The procedure went well, and he’s since recovered.”
