Would you ever allow doctors to give your baby an FMT? Let us know in the comments section... Researchers from Finland took an extreme approach and looked into whether babies would benefit from faecal microbiota transplants (FMTs).FMTs have been used to successfully resolve infections resistant to antibiotics in adults and require healthy stool to be introduced to the patients colon.
Published in journal Cell, the study showed that after three months, newborns treated with the poo had a similar microbial makeup to babies born vaginally.
One of the authors of the research, Store Andersson, from the University of Helsinki, said: “From a clinical point of view, this transfer of microbial material is happening during a vaginal delivery."This.
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