In a highly promising test, Canadian researchers found that putting a healthy human's excrement into a pill was more beneficial to people with serious gut infections than strong antibiotics.

According to the Associated Press, the researchers tried this experimental new method on 27 patients. Each had tried strong antibiotics to no avail, but were all cured by the pills containing the fecal matter of a healthy person.

Serious gut infections such as Clostridium difficile (C-diff) affect up to 500,000 Americans every year and kills approximately 14,000. Symptoms include nausea, cramping and diarrhea, often severe enough to be debilitating.

The new pill is simply a much easier method of performing a fecal transplant, a process of giving an infected person someone else's healthy feces. Currently, these transplants are very pricey and involve procedures similar to colonoscopies, or the use of throat tubes.

C-diff is treatable by a highly powerful and expensive antibiotic that kills the infection and a lot of good bacteria along with it. The damage caused by this drug actually makes a person's gut more vulnerable to future infections.

There are even home remedies and do-it-yourself methods that involve treatments with an enema that have been proven safe and effective. But Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, has come up with a one-time treatment option meant to be customized specifically to each patient.

An infected patient first needs a donor, often a relative, whose stool is processed in a lab to remove food and extract bacteria. The sample is then wrapped in a triple coated capsule to ensure the coating does not dissolve until it hits the bowels.

"There's no stool left - just stool bugs. These people are not eating poop," Louie said, adding patients will not experience any foul-smelling burps because the pill will not dissolve until it passes the stomach.

"The approach that Dr. Louie has is completely novel - no one else has done this," Dr. Curtis Donskey, of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said. "I am optimistic that this type of preparation will make these procedures much easier for patients and for physicians."