{"id":89420,"date":"2019-04-10T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radical-fecal-transplant-therapy-in-kids-has-reduced-their-autism-severity"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:43:54","slug":"radical-fecal-transplant-therapy-in-kids-has-reduced-their-autism-severity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radical-fecal-transplant-therapy-in-kids-has-reduced-their-autism-severity","title":{"rendered":"Radical Fecal Transplant Therapy in Kids Has Reduced Their Autism Severity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radical-fecal-transplant-therapy-in-kids-has-reduced-their-autism-severity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transforming the microbial environment in the guts of children diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"autism\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">autism<\/a> could significantly ease the severity of their condition\u2019s signature traits, according to newly published research.<\/p>\n<p>A study on the effects of a form of faecal transplant therapy in children on the autism spectrum found participants not only experienced fewer gut problems, but continued to show ongoing improvements in autism symptoms two years after the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State University researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40168-016-0225-7\">had already discovered<\/a> a dose of healthy gut microflora caused characteristics associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"autism spectrum disorder\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">autism spectrum disorder<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ASD\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ASD<\/a>) to ease or vanish for at least a couple of months after treatment ended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-severity-cut-in-half-in-kids-who-underwent-radical-faecal-transplant-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming the microbial environment in the guts of children diagnosed with autism could significantly ease the severity of their condition\u2019s signature traits, according to newly published research. A study on the effects of a form of faecal transplant therapy in children on the autism spectrum found participants not only experienced fewer gut problems, but continued [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}