Treating a horse with diarrhea is expensive and inconvenient. The clinical impression at Tufts Equine Center is that fecal transplant is an effective treatment. Its clinician-scientists wanted to look closer into the effects of fecal transplant on the gut of treated horses. Cummings School researchers have been working to document the effects and mechanisms of this therapy.
“Poop soup” is made from about two pounds of manure is collected from a healthy donor horse and then mixed with a few liters of water. The poop soup is delivered into the sick horse’s gut via a stomach tube.”
Source: Tufts Now, January 30, 2020. Link.
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