Now a Scottish company believes it has a solution that could make faecal transplants more palatable: by drying the healthy bacteria found in poo and putting it in a pill.
“We want to expand access, maximise patient safety and reduce the ick and yuck factor,” James McIlroy, from EnteroBiotix, said. “What we are seeking to do is overhaul the relatively crude way things are done at the moment and make it much more safe, effective and aesthetically pleasing.”
Faecal transplants are one of the great hopes of medicine. The microbiome, the diverse populations of microbes living in our guts, has been linked to a range of diseases. These include bowel conditions but also more surprising ones such as chronic fatigue syndrome.
