Could a fecal transplant and Vitamin D cure PANDAS?

[Guest pandas16]

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Edited December 16, 2011 by pandas16

[dut]

Hi - yeh, I'd been wondering similar after reading how you can re-seed guinea pigs for eg by giving half a dropping mixed in fluid, not suggesting, obviously but you get the picture and seeing the research someone posted re: mice changing their behaviours if given gi flora from other mice..

 

Can't remember if the research posted looked at whether the behaviour changes in the mice remained following a longer time period. Would re-seeding a person last or is there inherent differences not just in flora but perhaps in other bodily processes that would make any benefit time-limited?

 

pandas16 - is my memory right, it's you that's doing the pig whipworm therapy? How is it going?

 

thanks

[dut]

thanks.. looking forward to hearing your progress :-)

[SSS]

No, I don't think either of these things can cure pandas.

 

I followed a parents story about fecal transplant: No Dr. wanted to touch doing it. He finally found one, who was willing to do it, ONLY because the child had re-occuring, very serious clostrida infection of the gut- and they had tried many rounds of flagyl, and vancomycin, extremely high probiotic counts, diet change.

It kept coming back.

It was also difficult to find a clean donor- healthy people were not passing the various testing they had to go through to be a donor. It is also, of course, invasive to do to a child. They got it done, jury is still out whether or not it has been effective.

 

And while Vitamin D is very important to keep at a 'good' level in the body for overall health, it will not eradicate bacterial infections, nor fix an autoimmune disorder.

 

JMO.

[LNN]

While I'm thrilled to have more research looking into true causes of medical conditions that have up to this point been treated only an a symptom-management basis (e.g. now looking at probiotics and gut health, FL-1953 parasites being implicated in MS instead of just passing out band aid prescriptions), I think it's so much in its infancy. This article from April http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/science/21gut.html suggests people have one of three "gut bacterial types" the way people have different blood types. So a fecal transplant's success could be highly dependent on a good bacterial match, in the same way you'd need to give someone the same blood type for a major operation.