Fecal Microbiota Transplant and Its Evolving Medical Uses

I love the simplicity of this video in it's explanation of fecal microbiota transplant! Very worth watching!

This story comes from a mother who posted as a visitor on http://thepowerofpoo.blogspot.com.au/ - it's a very powerful story showing the tremendous results that FMT can give to a IBD sufferer (a child). It's definitely worth reading! Kathy's Success Story "Hi, I’m Kathy, mom to a nine-year-old girl diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in January 2012 and successfully treated with FMT. I don't want to know where we would be now if we hadn't tried it, or if it hadn’t worked. We went through seven months of hell trying to get her better before we started FMT. Here’s our story: E's symptoms appeared out-of-the blue. On Christmas Eve 2011, she called me into the bathroom to look at her wipe, which had some blood on it. Over the next few days, we noticed that her stool, though completely formed, had some visible blood coating the outside of it. I didn't make too much of it, which is surprising since I tend to be a bit of an alarmist when anyt...

The excerpt of six case reports listed below come from the following medical publication.  Treatment of ulcerative colitis using fecal bacteriotherapy . These are examples of long term remission achieved by using fecal microbiota transplants to treat Ulcerative Colitis.  The report was published in 2003 - if you are interested in reading the report in more detail, please click the following link which will open up a new window at the site for the Centre For Digestive Diseases. Please note that HP in the case studies refers to "human probiotics" (or fecal microbiota transplantation) Treatment of ulcerative colitis using fecal bacteriotherapy. TJ Borody, EF Warren, S Leis, R Surace, O Ashman. J Clin Gastroenterol 2003; 37(1): 42-7. Patient 1 A 25-year-old man presented with a 6-year history of UC. He had experienced frequent blood in stools, diarrhea (6–7 motions per day), abdomin...