(3.) See www.thefecaltransplantfoundation.org for a directory of practitioners and facilities that perform
fecal transplants.
That's the beauty of the
fecal transplant, which restores healthy bacteria to the GI tract and helps the patient overcome C.
Though most participants said they felt that
fecal transplants are gross, 97 percent said if it's necessary, they would repeat the procedure.
After being exposed to a carcinogen, mice that got
fecal transplants from other mice with colorectal cancer developed more and larger tumors than mice that got
fecal transplants from healthy mice.
Brandt said that his first choice for a
fecal transplant donor is an "intimate contact." (I doubt this crosses the mind of many couples during the "in sickness and in health" part of the wedding vows.) He also has had donors who are siblings, nonrelated household contacts, and friends.
Not too long ago, while reading the Sunday paper, my wife Rena pointed out an article on human biome researcher Rob Knight and said, "Look, at Harvard they are giving people frozen poop pills instead of
fecal transplants!" (1)
Dodds recommends that if a patient needing a
fecal transplant has specific food intolerances, the donor animal must eat a diet compatible to that patient for 10 to 14 days before fecal samples are obtained so that its feces do not contain reactive allergenic food residues that could harm the patient.
One of my colleagues in the
Fecal Transplant Foundation, gastroenterologist Colleen Kelly, is spearheading a plan to institute an FMT patient registry, where people will be able to report beneficial and adverse effects for years and decades after receiving FMT--that kind of data gathering might reveal long-term sequelae that we hadn't anticipated.
Fecal bacteriotherapy,
fecal transplant, and the microbiome.
These insights could lead to a therapeutic approach, Round said, with advantages over the
fecal transplants and probiotics that are now being widely investigated as ways to restore a healthy microbiota.
After
fecal transplants, two patients contracted severe infections with one of them dying.
In contrast to
fecal transplants or administration of fecal fractions, Vedanta Biosciences' consortia are defined compositions of bacteria manufactured from pure, clonal cell banks, without the need to rely on direct sourcing of fecal donor material of inconsistent composition.
