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Twitter is massive, it is the 10th most visited site in the world.

What is all these Google likes this, Google hates that nonsense? To me it's all a load of rubbish. Just follow the basic rules and everything will be just fine. All we do here in Nigeria is to gobble down information from foreign sites without actually trying to conduct our own research.

GEJ is working.

AyodejiCharles: This is how to know a Blindfolded Chelsea fans. Not ready to face the truth! Whether you like it or not Lukaku will have done better than Torres of this Season and Last Season combined together in Chelsea if Lukaku was given the Same playing time like Torres had played. Also you cannot judge a player by the Penalty kicks he misses .Any player on Earth can miss a penalty kick any time, any day. Ask Ballotelli and he will tell you more .

Who needs Lukaku when we have goal machines like Oscar, Hazard and Frank Lampard?

Where are all the lionesses?

Wow! That's very lovely. GEJ keep disappointing and frustrating your enemies. That you are the president of this country with all its challenges does not mean you can't have fun.

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The admins have the final say on whether to place or not to place recommended threads on FP[/quote]I see.

The USSR will replace Nigeria.

Solar-rechargable smartphone. Just put it in the sun for some minutes and the battery will be full.

Look at all these noise makers. I got my own before it was even released. They gave it to me to review.

Arsenal's downward spiral has just started.

I think Mourinho is being too harsh with him. He's young, naive and inexperienced and I think fatherly guidance should get the best out of him, not punishment and outright rejection.

This list is based on personal sentiments, not facts.

Please guys what's happening to Kevin De Bryune? I heard he's been banished to train with the reserves by Mourinho due to poor performances in training

Norwich 0 - 5 Chelsea

yung cyrus: I didnt know d OKPA LEGEND was tru until 1 gal wey i dey scope demand For Okpa n Coke.......lolz

Hahaha

U235weapongrade: Okpa di okuuuu

It's like you are from Eni Njoku

Frank Lampard is number 1 in the whole world. Type "world's best penalty takers" in Google and see what you'll get.

dominique: Done

Done, but I'm yet to see it on the frontpage.

If you are serious about blogging, use or Wordpress.

dominique: Thanks but I'll pass (where's the puke emoticon when you need one?)

But if it's a life and death situation...

I want to see a boa mate a reticulated python. There should be a fight between a lion, a tiger, a liger and a tiglion to know who is stronger.

We can't go on saying RIP forever, we have all said our RIPs last year. What we should be doing now is asking questions about whereabouts of the alleged killers. What happened to the suspects?

Una dey highly welcome

It shall be well.

Fynestboi, consider this UNN chat room https://www.nairaland.com/1465629/university-nigeria-nsukka-unn-chatroom

Great lions, lionesses and cubs, this is your thread. Introduce yourselves, ask questions and comment on any about UNN.

Mods consider this thread for the frontpage https://www.nairaland.com/1465280/canadian-doctor-treats-patients-drugs

Mod, I don't know how effective and helpful this thread is in terms of moving pages to the frontpage. All the same I'd like to recommend this topic for the front page https://www.nairaland.com/1465291/doctors-create-pills-peoples-feces

Researchers in Canada claimed to have discovered a new way to cure patients with serious gut infections by giving the pills made from healthy people’s faeces. The so-called “poop pills” were administered to 27 patients and all of them where cured, after treatment conditions with powerful anti-biotics failed.

Doctors have assured of its safety, cleanliness and wholesomeness

Donor stool, usually from a relative, is processed in the lab to take out food and extract the bacteria and clean it. It is packed into triple-coated gel capsules so they won’t dissolve until they reach the intestines.

‘There’s no stool left – just stool bugs. These people are not eating poop,’ and there are no smelly burps because the contents aren’t released until they’re well past the stomach, Louie said.

Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, was the scientist that devised this treatment procedure.

What does it cure?

C-diff. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. The germ causes nausea, cramping and diarrhea so bad it is often disabling. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections. Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants — giving infected people stool from a healthy donor — can restore that balance. But they’re given through expensive, invasive procedures like colonoscopies or throat tubes. Doctors also have tried giving the stool through enemas but the treatment doesn’t always take hold.


How does it work?

Days before starting the treatment, patients are given an antibiotic to kill the C-diff. On the morning of the treatment, they have an enema so “the new bacteria coming in have a clean slate,” Louie said. It takes 24 to 34 capsules to fit the bacteria needed for a treatment, and patients down them in one sitting. The pills make their way to the colon and seed it with the normal variety of bacteria.

Does it really work?

Louie described 27 patients treated this way on Thursday at IDWeek, an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco. All had suffered at least four C-diff infections and relapses, but none had a recurrence after taking the poop pills. Margaret Corbin, 69, a retired nurse’s aide from Calgary, told of the misery of C-diff.

“It lasted for two years. It was horrible. I thought I was dying. I couldn’t eat. Every time I ate anything or drank water I was into the bathroom,” she said. “I never went anywhere, I stayed home all the time.” With her daughter as the donor, she took pills made by Louie two years ago, and “I’ve been perfectly fine since,” Corbin said.

How are experts reacting to this?

Dr. Curtis Donskey of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who has done fecal transplants through colonoscopies, praised the work.

“The approach that Dr. Louie has is completely novel — no one else has done this,” he said. “I am optimistic that this type of preparation will make these procedures much easier for patients and for physicians.” Louie sees potential for the poop pills for other people with out-of-whack gut bacteria, such as hospitalized patients vulnerable to antibiotic-resistant germs.

“This approach, to me, has wide application in medicine,” he said. “So it’s not just about C-diff.”


http://observerreports.com/2013/10/doctors-create-pills-from-feces-more-powerful-than-antibiotics/
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2013/10/03/pills-made-from-poop-cure-serious-gut-infections/LpSgCpRkH5MDncMD0Ak7ZJ/story.html