Fecal transplant to help babies at risk

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Newborns at risk for Type 1 diabetes because they were given antibiotics may have their gut microorganisms restored with a maternal fecal transplant, according to a Rutgers study.

The findings suggest that newborns at risk for Type 1 diabetes because their microbiome – the trillions of beneficial microorganisms in and on our bodies – were disturbed can have the condition reversed by transplanting fecal microbiota from their mother into their gastrointestinal tract after the antibiotic course has been completed.

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