Everyone is familiar with calls to donate blood, sperm, stem cells, bone marrow and organs, but the opening of a new 'poo bank' in the Netherlands means it is now possible to donate your faeces.
獻血、捐精、捐獻干細胞、捐骨髓、器官捐贈……這些你可能都聽說過，不過最近荷蘭新開了一家“便便銀行”，這意味著上面的各種捐贈中又要多一項：捐便。

The "poo bank", more formally referred to as the Dutch Donor Faeces Bank (NDFB), opened recently at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC).
“便便銀行”還有個更官方的名字——“荷蘭糞便捐贈庫”。這家銀行近日在荷蘭雷登大學醫療中心（LUMC）開業。

The faeces deposited at the NDFB is invaluable for those living with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) — a bacterial infection which can affect the digestive system. In the Netherlands there are 3,000 reported C. difficile cases a year, usually occurring after using antibiotics to treat other illnesses.
對于梭狀芽胞桿菌（一種影響消化系統的病菌）攜帶者來說，“便便銀行”的存在非常重要。荷蘭每年新增3000例這種病患，這種感染通常發生于使用了抗生素治療其他疾病之后。

Although the infection often results in few symptoms, in approximately five per cent of patients it can recur as a regular infection. Symptoms for them include three to five bouts a day of usually foul-smelling, watery diarrhoea, sometimes blood-stained, accompanied by abdominal cramping and pain.
雖然這種感染沒有什么特別癥狀，但大約有5%的病患會出現反復感染。反復感染的病患每天會呈現三到五次的病狀，比如便惡臭、水樣便等，有時還會便血，并伴有腹部絞痛。

For such unfortunate sufferers faecal transplants are the only effective treatment.
對于這些不幸的病患，便移植就成為唯一有效的治療手段。

Ed Kuijper, a professor at the LUMC explained:
雷登大學醫療中心教授庫吉柏解釋道：

"The effectiveness of faecal transplants in patients with a Clostridium difficile infection was proven in 2013. Since then, the treatment has been included in national and international guidelines."
“便移植對梭狀芽胞桿菌攜帶者治療的有效性已于2013年得到證實。從那時起，這種治療手段便被本國和國際醫療機構采納。”

The LUMC also provides training for those doctors who will carry out faecal transplants, of which there are said to be three or four every month in the Netherlands, although that number is increasing rapidly.
雷登大學醫療中心也在對醫生進行便移植培訓。荷蘭每月約有三到四例這種手術，而且數量還在迅速增加。

Calling for healthy donors living near Leiden to offer their deposits to the ‘poo bank’, Professor Kuijper conceded the practice is “not established yet, like giving blood is” adding:
庫吉柏教授號召住在雷登附近的健康居民積極“捐便”，但他也承認，這種捐贈“就像獻血一樣，尚未形成風氣”。

"I think it’s a matter of getting used to it."
他同時補充道：“我覺得這只是習慣問題。”

你知道嗎？

不同于去年已開設兩間同類銀行的美國，荷蘭的便便捐贈者是沒有酬勞的，捐贈者保持匿名。

英文來源：breitbart.com
編譯：杜娟