Stoping Bleeding during a flare, without medication..

It his believed to be a way to put people who are having a Colitis flareup (in particular those people who have an imbalance in colonic bacterial flora) into remission.

Only surgery can cure Colitis. After all, Colitis is inflammation of the colon. If you have a colon, it can become inflamed.

I would say that fecal transplantation was a great boost to my system. It put me immediately into remission. My poo looked fantastic. However, I had to be on antibiotics soon after wards, off and on for about a year due to a urinary tract infection. My Colitis came back.

I did think about doing fecal transplantation again with this latest flare, but my granddaughter was older. Her poo wasn't quite the same. I wasn't sure it would work as well. And then I saw that stores were selling Probiotics. So I focused on my diet and Probiotics. After all, fecal transplantation is kind of gross, and if fecal transplantation works, then Probiotics should too.

I think my diet and Probiotics did put me in remission. It's just that they took a long time to work. The blood tapered off very slowly. The poo remained small for a long time.

I will probably do fecal transplantation again if I get another flare. Until then, I will be taking Probiotics. Hopefully, then will never happen. Of course, we all hope that.

Certainly these tiny published studies, with sample sizes less than 20 (much less than 20 in this case), are rather weak statistically.  And, of course, if a study isn't double-blind, it is further weakened (though I suppose you could make fake pooh easy enough- not sure if one smells the enema but that would surely be a giveaway that would blow the "blind" part).  Still, any success dictates the need for more studies.  One thing about fecees is that there are at a minimum hundreds of strains of bacteria as oppsoed to the handful in even the best probiotics.  And then there is the survival aspect of getting the bacteria past the stomach and (in the case of UC) small gut.

jpm said...
I think it's because it may be difficult to populate the colon linings and get the bacteria attach permanently.

That's a good point. I think the fact that my granddaughter's poo was a gooey, yellow liquid (she was drinking only breast milk at the time) helped the bacteria to take hold and flourish. I'm not sure that regular poo will work as well. Hence my reluctance to do it again, although I will if I become desperate enough. Now if my daughter has another baby, I'm definitely going to do it again, flareup or no flareup.