Fecal microbiota transplant procedure, its causes, effects & how to overcome wit

Posted by Grace Dervishi on December 19th, 2017

Fecal Microbiota was initially introduced in China and known as yellow soup. It is now in demand and used for more than 100 years. It is commonly used from decades in various countries due to the customer preferences. In newborn babies they can receive small amount from mothers stool via mouth where the number of good bacteria can transfer in baby’s colon, and finally they will jump in baby’s immune system.

Transplantation is the best possible procedure to transfer healthy and good head count of microbes from one person to another. Transplantation of microbes incorporates in the stool of a healthy donor and it proven that it is a safe and effective method to increase the diversity of good bacteria in the guts of patients with ulcerative colitis. So, Fecal Microbiota transplantation is an effective way for the disease that causes inflammation and ulcers in patient’s digestive tract.

Procedure of Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT):

Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is a method in which fecal matter or you can say stool, can be collected from a tested healthy donor, then mixed with a saline or another solution suggest by specialists, strained, and finally placed in a patient, by colonoscopy, endoscopy, and sigmoidoscopy or by enema.

Purpose of Fecal Microbiota Transplant:

May be it will come in your mind that, what is the purpose of FMT & how it will work after transplantation? It is very simple and the purpose of fecal transplant is just to replace good bacteria that have been killed, usually it will happen by the use of antibiotics, causing harmful bacteria, specifically Clostridium difficile. This condition causes infection and called Clostridium difficile colitis, resulting in often debilitating, even fatal diarrhea can happen.

Effective Treatment of FMT:

Fecal Transplant is a very low-cost, lower priority in terms of risk and highly effective treatment. There are various foundations or organizations are working to increase awareness in patients for this life saving treatment.

Constipation is vital for all diseases in normal patients so, what are the methods to overcome with constipation or treatment for constipation.

Maximum patients are suggested by physicians for conservative treatment including dietary and exercise changes or to have mild laxatives. Patients must have rich diet with fruits, vegetables, wheat, oat bran, Psyllium seed, Synthetic methyl cellulose and Polycarbophil etc.

Fecal impletion is a much serious form of constipation that can be more effective in the elderly and disabled. Where doctor will inserts a gloved finger and manually breaks up the solidified stool to release hardened material from stool. A gentle enema can be helpful in this situation by using warm water or mineral oil may also be helpful.

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