How to Perform a Fecal Transplant at Home

Below are written instructions as well as a how-to video of a Mother who has used at-home fecal transplants to help eliminate her daughter’s debilitating gut problems and get her off strong medications for good.

She demonstrates exactly how to do an at-home fecal transplant using a simple, low-cost enema bottle available over the counter at the pharmacy.

A small study has shown that an at-home fecal transplant using an enema bag to be completely safe and highly effective.

If you feel more comfortable with written instructions, here are directions from Dr. David Williams’ newsletter “How to Perform a Home Fecal Transplant” using an enema bag.

How to Find a Suitable Donor

A suitable fecal donor should not answer yes to ANY of the following contraindications:

• History of Covid shots (they destroy ALL the beneficial bifidobacteria in the gut)
• Symptoms of any gastrointestinal disease.
• Overweight (indicates imbalance of gut flora)
• Malignancy
• History of antibiotic use
• History of birth control pills
• Hospitalization within the past three months

The donor’s blood should be tested for hepatitis A, B, and C, HIV, and syphilis.

In addition, a stool test should be performed to check for pathogens, parasites, and C. difficile.

Typically, a family member is the ideal donor since they have been in close proximity to the patient and share the same infectious risk factors, which minimizes risk.

Alternatively, a healthy stool sample can be obtained from the independent stool bank OpenBiome located in Massachusetts. I am not sure if OpenBiome screens out donors who have had any Covid shots, so it would be wise to ask first.

Items Needed for DIY Fecal Transplant

To perform the procedure, you need the following items in addition to a fresh stool sample:

• A therapeutic probiotic should be taken before the transplant by the patient (not the donor), and for at least 60 days following. I suggest staying on it for life.
• A four-day prescription taken by the patient for metronidazole (Flagyl) 500 mg (orally three times per day), or vancomycin 125 mg (orally four times per day) to sterilize or wipe out any pathogenic bacteria in the colon. The medication needs to be stopped 24 to 48 hours before the procedure. [Grant Pharmacy online can mail order this to you without a script.]
• At least 200 mL of normal sterile saline solution (found at any pharmacy or online).
• A standard 2-quart enema bag kit.
• A kitchen blender.

The best time to perform the procedure is in the morning following the first bowel movement of the day.

• Combine 50 mL of solid stool obtained from the donor immediately before the transplant (less than 30 minutes) with a 200 mL saline solution in the blender.
• Mix in the blender until liquefied.
• Pour the entire mixture into the enema bag.

Have the patient lie on the left side and administer the enema per kit instructions. The patient should remain in that position for as long as possible to avoid defecation.

The patient should not feel any pain or discomfort outside of the normal sensations experienced during an enema.

If diarrhea occurs within one hour, the procedure can be immediately repeated, but a fresh stool sample will need to be used.

How-to Video: Home Fecal Transplant

The video below was filmed by a Mother doing a home fecal transplant for her daughter who is debilitated by gut problems.

Note that the sound is not the best, but it is the best I’ve found to share.

References

OpenBiome: Independent Stool Bank

One Person’s Poop is Another Person’s Prescription

As Antibiotic Failure Grows, Poop Pills Filling the Void

Gastroenterologist Reveals Covid (and Jab) Effects on Gut MicroBiome

Success of self-administered home fecal transplantation for chronic Clostridium difficile infection