That afternoon, on the ninth floor of one of the buildings of the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, Sandrine Delage is busy filtering a strange brown liquid on her laboratory bench. “After mixing them with a product that allows them to freeze, the feces are filtered twice to remove residues.Then transfer this mixture into capsules or syringes“Explains the young pharmacy assistant, covered from head to toe in protective equipment. A very serious matter. Because in this “microbiota transplant preparation unit” we produce medicines based on human excreta that are particularly effective in the treatment of serious disease with multiple recurrent infections. Clostridium difficile (pronounced “difficult”).
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Sandrine Delage, a pharmacy technician, filters a donor’s stool to prepare the medication. Everything is done under an extraction hood to work under sterile conditions. Cecil Thibert
This bacterium, which is very present in our environment, but also in the intestines of some people, can cause a lot of damage. “As long as our gut microbiota (formerly called “gut flora”…
Source: Le Figaro
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