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A woman has dramatically gained weight after a stool transplant from her daughter, doctors report.
It is a genuine medical procedure to transplant healthy bacteria into a diseased gut, but US doctors think it may have affected her waistline.
She quickly gained 36lb (16kg) and is now classed as obese, the case report in Open Forum Infectious Diseases says.
A UK expert said the link between gut bugs and obesity was still unclear.
A faecal microbiota transplant - also referred to by some as a "transpoosion" - is like an extreme version of a probiotic yogurt.
The aim is to introduce good bacteria into the gut and it was officially backed by the UK health service last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31168511
It is a genuine medical procedure to transplant healthy bacteria into a diseased gut, but US doctors think it may have affected her waistline.
She quickly gained 36lb (16kg) and is now classed as obese, the case report in Open Forum Infectious Diseases says.
A UK expert said the link between gut bugs and obesity was still unclear.
A faecal microbiota transplant - also referred to by some as a "transpoosion" - is like an extreme version of a probiotic yogurt.
The aim is to introduce good bacteria into the gut and it was officially backed by the UK health service last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31168511