Re:Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors...
by ineedasername on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:16PM
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Honestly I thought that was pretty well known already. I knew a girl in college about 20 years ago who had been on massive amounts of anti-biotics, and it ruined her stomach & digestive system in some way. At the time she was having to slowly build up "good" bacterial through some type of specialty yogurts (might just have been probiotics, which were not as prevalent then). It was a multi-year process though, and she couldn't eat a lot of types of food in the meantime.
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Re:Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors...
by mleonhard on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:57AM
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Why didn't she just get a fecal transplant?
Re:Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors...
by Madmallard on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:19AM
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Because you can't. They're reserved for c-diff infections and there isn't much risk data on use cases outside of that such that regular providers won't give it the OK.
Re:Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors...
by ineedasername on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:48AM
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This was 20 years ago. While not brand new at the time, it wasn't very common.
A lot of work on FMT has only taken place in the last decade. I don't think there was even a randomized trial for it as a treatment method until the last 10 years.