Study: Fecal Transplants Improve Old Horse Gut Health – The Horse
ADVERTISEMENT Hospitalized geriatric horses that successfully recovered from severe bouts of colitis—intestinal inflammation often associated with diarrhea—showed positive changes in their gut microbiota after receiving diluted feces from healthy horse donors, said Daniela Bedenice, Dr. med. vet. Dipl. ACVIM, ACVECC, of the Department of Clinical Sciences in Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, in North Grafton, Massachusetts. By pumping a “soup” of fresh feces blended with water directly into the patients’ stomachs via a nasogastric tube, the clinicians seem...
Source: thehorse.com