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  • Updated 02:18 PM EDT, Mon May, 2021

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Georgia Girl gets Life-saving Fecal transplant to treat C. diff infection

This is an inspirational story. That began with a seemingly harmless round of antibiotics led to an unexpected life-threatening infection for Atlanta-area child Avery Lee, who was diagnosed with Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, in January 2014. But the now-4-year-old is healing after suffering persistent bloody diarrhea and stomach cramps— thanks to a fecal transplant performed earlier this summer by GI Care for Kids of Atlanta and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

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