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Fecal transplant helped patients recover from coronavirus
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Fecal transplants have already proven to be effective in fighting colitis, Crohn’s disease, diarrhea and even autism, scientists say.
In Poland, coronavirus patients recovered after fecal microbiota transplantation. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru citing research published in the journal Gut.
It is reported that both patients, 80 and 19 years old, suffered from colitis, but they were also diagnosed with coronavirus.
During the course of treatment, both were administered microbiota obtained from the feces of healthy people.
“The older patient had a high fever. He passed a positive PCR test. The man was prescribed remdesevir and intended to inject blood plasma with antibodies to SARS-CoV2. However, two days after the fecal transplant, his COVID-19 symptoms disappeared and the pneumonia did not worsen.” , – write the authors of the study.
The young man was treated with immunosuppressants and antibiotics. Already 15 hours after the stool transplant, he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
“This patient had a fever several times before the fecal transplant, but soon the symptoms of infection disappeared,” the doctors noted.
Soon, PCR tests in both patients showed negative results.
Scientists emphasize that it is too early to draw serious conclusions. But they intend to conduct clinical trials to see if it is worth adding fecal transplants to standard coronavirus treatment procedures.
We will remind, in Norway, women shared in social networks an unusual side effect after applying the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
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