McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine

FMT material donors

2018-05-22

Christine Lee

How do you select donors of fecal material for fecal microbiota transplantation?

Christine Lee: We choose them using the donor screening questionnaire. They have to have respectful lifestyle, they cannot have any autoimmune disease, they have to be free of any anxiety, depression, and they have to have an appropriate body weight. If their body mass index is over 29, which is considered obese, then they are excluded. There cannot be any family history of colon cancer and they have to have regular bowel movements as well.

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