Our plan No2 in C.diff fight

APOLOGIES if you’re still eating breakfast, but did you know the first poo bank has opened in a British hospital? Me neither.

Doctors have discovered an amazing cure for the terrible bowel disease Clostridium difficile, which hits 13,000 people a year in England and kills more than 2,500.

The only problem is this miracle medicine is a dose of someone else’s, erm, number twos. As disgusting as it sounds, the “good bacteria” in other people’s guts can help restore the balance in C.diff sufferers, if they ingest it.

So “frozen faecal samples” are being stockpiled at a hospital in Portsmouth and can be transported anywhere in the UK within hours.

C. diff kills one in six sufferers within six days and costs the NHS tens of millions – because 20 per cent of patients no longer respond to traditional antibiotics.

Results of a two-year study have just revealed the bug-killing drugs have been so over-prescribed that bacteria have grown resistant to them. And that means superbugs will kill more people than cancer by 2050.

Drug companies have been urged to come up with new cures, with multi-million dollar incentives.

But the Portsmouth poo pill can cure patients at £85 a pop.

That makes it much easier to swallow… doesn’t it?