From Cape Breton Post …

In a news report published earlier this week, an unidentified man with C. difficile told a reporter that he was in a hospital gown and ready for a fecal bacteriotherapy procedure (also known as a fecal transplant), only to be told by nurses that they couldn’t assist with the procedure because it was not an approved policy of the hospital and could cost them their jobs.

In the method most commonly used, a fecal transplant is a reverse enema-type procedure where stool from a healthy donor is dripped into the bowel to try to restore the natural balance of bacteria that have been disrupted by C. difficile.

The 66-year-old man said he first learned he had contracted C. difficile 18 months ago, four days after leaving the regional hospital after undergoing a routine medical procedure.

According to Cape Breton District Health Authority spokesman Greg Boone, fecal bacteriotherapy is not an approved therapy in Nova Scotia, though fecal transplant is being done in Quebec and Alberta.