True that must kill all probiotics in GI before fecal transfer?

I am not recommending this, but since FDA has banned all fecal transfers in US (thereby driving them underground), I'm going to do an at-home fecal transfer.

One protocol for such says you have to kill ALL probiotics that exist in your GI tracts by using something like Vancomycin (without taking any probiotics) before you do the fecal transfer.

That seems counter productive when you're really sick.

Does anyone know?

Margaret

Firstly, eating yogurt is not at all the same as undergoing fecal transplant.
SCD yogurt bacterial strains are; Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus, and Lactobacillus acidophilus. (Only two of those strains reach the large intestine.)
Fecal transplant, depending upon the host, can contain many hundreds of different strains of bacteria.

As there is no clarity or consensus as to what the 'bad bacteria' are (let alone knowing how to kill off only the so-called bad bacteria while leaving the rest), the idea behind the fecal transplant process is to try and wipe out the colonic bacterial population, and then repopulate the colon with that of a 'healthy' donor.
It is a very complex issue, undergoing more research....