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just to clear up some things on the issue of fecal transplant..they are working on fecal pills..good news but bad news it is not recommended for refractory pouchitis but for eliminating c-diff for cases where it is reoccurring and antibiotics not working..

recently my husband asked dr. shen about it for my chronic pouchitis and he wrote back that he has tried it on various patients with refractory pouchitis and it has not been successful..
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I had asked my GI (who is a protege of Dr. Shen and studied with him at Cleveland Clinic, and still talks to him regularly) about fecal transplants to treat pouchitis a long time ago, and his comment was: "all that it is, is a strong probiotic." He was decidedly less than enthusiastic about it as a treatment for my pouchitis. He was more positive about VSL#3 DS as a treatment. But if VSL#3 DS and their progeny are not working to effectively treat active pouchitis and bring it into remission, chances are that fecal transplants will not do so either.

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