Hi @Ianabell, I am an intern here at Mayo Clinic and was actually the patient/writer of this story! I contacted Dr. Khanna who performed this procedure and he informed me that Mayo Clinic does not yet use Fecal Microbiota Transplant as a protocol for Crohn’s disease but hopes to have one implemented next year.
There is currently a study that can be found at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02417974?term=crohn%27s+disease+and+fecal+transplant&rank=7 that is using FMT for Crohns patients and is recruiting now out of Boston Medical Center! I hope that this helped!
Think of it this way – the microbiota in your gut create the initial nutrients and/or toxins that become you. The anecdotal (and, now, clinical) evidence supporting one of the most obvious medicinal treatment for a host of issues is becoming irrefutable. An interesting scenario (sadly) for the future of holistic treatments, this one being at the top of the “not a hoax” list, is how pharma will respond. If a fecal transplant (or a custom culture now being prepared at emerging companies in this area) can “cure” C difficile and have a pleiotropic positive impact on a spectrum of gene-metabolism related syndromes, there will be the usual economically (rather than health logic) driven tug of war and people will suffer unnecessarily. My view – set up fecal transplant mini clinics like Starbucks did for coffee and make people healthy – the procedure is so trivial as long as the source material is quality controlled.
My son has become overtaken by yeast. He has been treated for exzma for over 2 years by 3 different dermatologist, has seen an allergist and now being referred to a nutritionist. The Dr refuses to listen about the yeast. If he has anything with even the smallest amount of sugar or sweetner he breaks out head to toe. I read about this procedure and would love to see his gut get healthy again. He has lost 55 lbs and sleeps almost all the time he is not working. Would love to have them try this for him.
Hi I have khrons for the past 4 years and I have been suffering been on steroids 5x already and now they want to put me on imurane or the biologics medication. I would love to go through this procedure to insert the microbiota in my gut.could you please let me know what can I do to be able part of your project.
Thank you
Anna
@lanabell
I’m wondering if this could be used in patients with Crohns disease? I’ve read several articles on this and saw a news report from Vanderbilt saying it could also cure crohns, I have suffered from the disease for over thirty years, and I am very interested. Thanks for your time!