Make room for poop trans­plants, even if a stool-based ther­a­py is even­tu­al­ly ap­proved — in­sist doc­tors and pa­tients in FDA hear­ing

“No one wants a fe­cal trans­plant. The sheer des­per­a­tion it takes for some­one to agree to have the poop of an­oth­er per­son trans­plant­ed in­to their body is mind-bog­gling,” said Chris­t­ian Lil­lis of the Peg­gy Lil­lis Foun­da­tion, at an FDA hear­ing on fe­cal mi­cro­bio­ta trans­plan­ta­tion on Mon­day, where a pla­toon of FMT re­searchers, clin­i­cians, pa­tients, pa­tient ad­vo­cates, and even a stool bank of­fered their per­spec­tives on the ev­i­dence sup­port­ing the treat­ment’s safe­ty and ef­fi­ca­cy.

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