HyGIeaCare^® Prep

About Us

In 2014 Gavriel D. Meron, founder and former CEO of Given Imaging, the Company that successfully brought the PillCam to the world, partnered with Texas-based Lifestream Purification Systems to form HyGIeaCare, Inc. to bring the HyGIeaCare FDA-cleared Prep System and Prep procedure exclusively to the GI world.

The goal of HyGIeaCare is to provide unique services and solutions to gastroenterologists to deliver better GI outcomes for their patients and their practice through a chain of HyGIeaCare Centers to be established in the US and throughout the world.

In the US, 14.5M screening colonoscopies are performed each year, and this number is growing annually. According to the recently released US Multi-Society Task Force Consensus Statement on Adequate Bowel Cleansing for Colonoscopy, up to 20 – 25 percent of all colonoscopies are reported to have an inadequate bowel preparation. An incomplete standard prep makes it difficult to detect precancerous lesions. Current prep is also burdensome. There is clearly a need for a better way to prep colons.

HyGIeaCare^® has a significant role in preparing patients for colonoscopy. To date more than 10,000 patients have performed and paid out of pocket for HyGIeaCare prep.

These patients had excellent outcomes with 97% adequacy of cleanliness for colonoscopy reported by over 50 physicians, 95% patient willingness  to repeat, with excellent patient feedback – and zero severe adverse events.

Additionally, our HyGIeaCare Centers are being utilized successfully for constipated patients, as shown  in a first peer reviewed publication with excellent data showing that HyGIeaCare relief for constipation is safe and effective (175 patients, 100% BMs and relief, zero severe adverse events). The actual paper can be viewed here

For hospitals there are significant advantages of adopting hygieacare including:

• Outpatient preps frequently fail – resulting in cancellation of colonoscopy and wasted resources
• In-patients are notoriously difficult to prep, half of them are inadequately prepped, and the task of prepping in-patients on the nursing staff is burdensome, and difficult also for the patients
• Good response for in-patients or patients presenting at the ER with impaction/chronic constipation.
• Allows for improved efficiency through speedy triage – “hygieacare prep, scope, diagnose, treat and release”
• Prep for abdominal or colorectal surgery
• Allows to perform fecal transplant infusions on the system – instead of prep, sedate, scope, transplant – just HyGIeaCare prep then infuse gravity fed. Autologous fecal transplant post chemo, or post-surgery may be beneficial and worth researching and then implementing based on the outcomes published.
• Differentiates the hospital as being ahead of the curve

HyGIeaCare has developed and validated a proprietary and stringent set of protocols (Standard Operating Procedures = SOPs) and Training Course for nurses and techs so that we are consistently replicating the excellent results in the HyGIeaCare Centers

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