One invention for Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis patients
that would be very valuable is a toilet that can analyze bowel movements. I saw
this
story about a toilet that can analyze the structure of a stool and send a URL
to a patient. The toilet can analyze amount of bacteria, fat, and other
important information. For Crohn’s patients and ulcerative colitis patients
whether or not the stool had blood and whether or not it was solid or liquid.
The results could be sent via toilet to the gastroenterologist who would have
that information and get alerts if they saw a patient declining in their
health. Hospitals would really benefit from this if they were able to do both
stool and urine analysis in patient rooms and have the information sent to the
attending physician who could review it. This way hospitals wouldn’t have to
waste time giving people little cups or bags to analyze urine or stools.
Whenever a patient used a toilet they would be providing data to the doctor and
hospital.
The type of kind of data that could be generated with this
new invention I believe would help not only Crohn’s and colitis patients but
everyone in general. If a toilet was able to analyze to do a urine and stool
analysis people could maybe see illnesses in diseases much more in advance and
go to the doctor before they got worse. The CCFA should work with toilet makers
and scientists in order to develop a toilet that can analyze urine and stool at
the same rate as a high grade research laboratory. We literally are flushing
valuable down the toilet every day!
Hello, can you please send me more information on this.
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