VEry exciting research- Synthetic Stool Substitute

Very fresh news: published 9th january. I just came across the following article after reading a review on Medscape news

http://www.microbiomejournal.com/content/1/1/3

Basically they made a stool transplant after isolating healthy bacteria (33 strains) from a healthy woman and they used it to eradicate recurrent c difficile infection. It's called rePOOPulate.

Is this an FT?

synthetic stool with appropriate strains is so much more appealing....hope it's not brown, however.

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brown, black, or chartreuse .. synthetic stool without risk of disease transmitted by contact with blood and/or body fluids is VERY appealing.

But if it were purple with sparkles it'd be even better, right?

kidding, kidding

So we only have to wait, what, 10 years?

Last week I attended a lecture by a gastroenterologist/med school faculty member studying probiotics with regard to C.difficile & IBD treatment. He said that "cutting-edge" gastros & researchers are now thinking in terms of a standardized FT to be administered by colonoscope. The scope would enable deposit of transplant matter throughout the entire colon, likely more beneficial than an enema's reach. He also described an FT study whose subject achieved remission from UC after transplant from a relative, and after a period of time, has the exact stool components (microscopically determined) as the healthy relative. So-- very exciting possibilities for UCers to contemplate, also huge news for C.difficile victims because that bacteria has been growing stronger & more drug resistant. / Old Hat (32 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

Yeh basically what it means for us is that in the very near furture -i would say next 5 years or so - we can expect this synthetic FT to be available so that people with UC don't have to keep shoving other people's poop up their a****