More On Fecal Transplants For IBDs

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More On Fecal Transplants For IBDs

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Hi All,

Another study has been released showing that fecal transplant therapy is ineffective for ulcerative colitis.
Fecal microbiota transplantation was not more effective compared with placebo in patients with active ulcerative colitis, according to research presented at the 10th Congress of ECCO in Barcelona, Spain
FMT not effective in active UC patients

Interestingly, among the subjects who did respond, their microbiota did shift toward a microbiota similar to the donor's microbiome, and this microbiome change was different from the changes that occurred in subjects who achieved remission in response to a placebo.

This supports my long-held opinion that fecal transplants are not likely to be useful for treating MC, unfortunately, unless someone can figure out a way to make them much more effective.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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