Fecal transplants finally approved to fight C.difficile – July 2024

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Clostridium difficile treatment by Fecal Transplant finally approved by the FDA - July 2024

The Future of FMT: How Fecal Transplants are Evolving to Treat New Conditions

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Fecal transplants could prevent 12,000 C.difficile deaths a year, but one person died, so lets wait – July 2019

Fact: 15,000 people are dying each year in US hospitals due to Clostridioides difficile
Fact: Fecal Transplants have been found to prevent at least 80% of Clostridioides difficile deaths
Fact: One person died one year of Fecal Translant (the donor had a deadly infection)
Conclusion: Let 11,999 people die each year until we agree on how to inspect the fecal transplants for infections

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• We're Starting to Harness the Microbiome to Treat Disease – Scientific American, Aug 2019
  • But strong regulation is a must to protect patient safety
  • “An estimated 15,000 deaths are directly attributable to C. diff infections.”
  •  Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
• Clostridioides difficile infection Wikipedia
  • “Fecal bacteriotherapy, also known as a stool transplant, is roughly 85% to 90% effective in those for whom antibiotics have not worked.”
• Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection – June 2019
  • “Efficacy rates ranged from 43.8% to 96.2% with FMT, and safety data were relatively similar”
• Fecal transplants greatly reduce Clostridium difficile - RCT June 2018
  • Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Primary Clostridium difficile Infection NEJM

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VitaminDWiki - Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies

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