An article in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reports that transplanting feces from healthy persons into diarrheic individuals can help their diarrhea. As summarized by Eureka Alert: Using frozen stool from healthy, unrelated donors was safe and effective in treating patients with serious, relapsing diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile [CD] ... Known as fecal microbiota transplantation, the treatment was equally effective whether given via a colonoscope or a nasogastric tube [down through the nose, into the stomach]. ...
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