Faecal transplant may protect premature babies from fatal bowel disease

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Children born prematurely often experience serious problems with the gastrointestinal tract and therefore have increased risk of developing life-threatening bowel infection. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown, in a study on pigs, that transplantation of faeces from healthy pigs changes the bowel's bacterial composition in those born prematurely and protects them from the fatal bowel disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news