Nelly & Faecal probiotics

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Tom Borody was the very first doctor I saw when I first became ill in 1982!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>In the future, it is conceivable that "bacteriotherapy" using combined, selected bacterial strains resembling >human fecal flora (6, 21, 22), perhaps in capsule form, may become a curative therapeutic agent for C. >difficile infection and perhaps for those GI disorders that we now call "idiopathic" but that may well have an >infective etiology.Very ironic that over 20 years ago HE called my IBS "functional" and "idiopathic" when the whole time I was telling him it was INFECTIOUS and that flagyl improved it dramatically. He sent me packing! Told me I was too anxious, there, there, go and see a shrink!!!!So that's what he was saying in 2000, interesting! Wish he hadn't been such a slow learner!Anyway, , are you getting these fecal flora capsules into you?Nelly

Well, he's oviously seen the light or at least the bugs...No i'm not activly doing anything towards fecal probiotics .For a start I dont think the captuals will be effective ...I think maybe live cultures are the way to go .....Resembling human faecal flora is missing the point.....If we accept that faecal transfers are effective because they carry the all important recognition protein ...that protein marks out the bacteria as self [how else can host microbes remain unmolested by the IS] Then it's essential that the protein is preserved.Processing the bacteria making it into a capsule form will almost certainly compromise that coat ...As FP do multiply in the gut can we then assume the recognition protein is imparted to the multiplying microbes.

I was hoping to get a doctor interested , get some testing underway , but as yet no success ..