• Question: can u eat poo

    Asked by Jay E-Vans to Rob, Ceri on 15 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 15 Nov 2014:


      Yes, you could eat poo, but it would be a bad idea because it might carry diseases which would make you ill.

      However for some people with very severe bowel disease, there is an experimental new treatment putting the bacteria from a healthy person’s gut into the ill person’s gut, by squirting poo from the healthy person up the ill person’s bottom – look up ‘faecal transplants’ to find out more.

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 17 Nov 2014:


      Not a good idea but you can try it if you want to…

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