Looking for information or guidance about FMT clinics in Singapore Sources 

We were hoping to do it in a clinic for safe preparation of the material and to have it done under professional clinical administration via gastroscopy (duodenal and cecal in the same session). They have top tier anaerobic preparation etc that we don't have at home and we aren't yet confident enough to set up a home lab.

Also I think my donor is squeamish about doing DIY as they are worried about my safety more than anything else. MY view is a little more bridled, I would prefer home administration because I'm confident it can be performed safely based on your wiki (and others like as per this resource https://www.microbiomeinmind.com.au/making-fmt) but it's hard to convince someone who's got no experience in chronic GI issues that it's safe because I "read it on a forum / watched youtube".

Having said all that, I'm not against doing scopes as they do seem to provide quite durable engraftment. I just want to make sure the clinic is vetted and reputable and actually know what they're doing.

So expensive plane tickets incoming...
 
for safe preparation of the material and to have it done under professional clinical administration via gastroscopy (duodenal and cecal in the same session). They have top tier anaerobic preparation etc that we don't have at home and we aren't yet confident enough to set up a home lab.
Those statements don't reflect that you have reviewed the wiki, because those are poorly informed notions. You don't need a home lab or professional equipment to prepare FMT in a safe and anaerobic manner. Clinical procedures come with risks and should be avoided if possible.

Jane Dudley's microbiomeinmind.com.au website is not a reputable source.

but it's hard to convince someone who's got no experience in chronic GI issues that it's safe because I "read it on a forum / watched youtube"
Then don't link them to poor sources. Link them to the wiki, which is full of high-quality, primary citations.

I just want to make sure the clinic is vetted and reputable and actually know what they're doing
I would argue that such an FMT clinic does not exist.
 
Then don't link them to poor sources. Link them to the wiki, which is full of high-quality, primary citations.

No primary citations will reference preparation in a home lab, unfortunately. In the clinical science world, lab space is plentiful but regulations for human experimentation are strict--thus nobody would propose a study that doesn't have the material prepared by medical doctors or PhDs in a professional setting. Thus it's effectively circular--the only people who are testing whether it's safe prepared otherwise are not the ones publishing the articles. It will likely take years of it being a mainstream procedure in regular doctors' offices (not research studies) for non-C. diff indications before anyone from the scientific/medical community would go on the record saying that people could prepare this at home.
 
No primary citations will reference preparation in a home lab
This is irrelevant and a red herring. One can review the processes being done at labs, hospitals, and home environments, and clearly see that there is nothing vital that must be done in a lab or hospital setting to safely and efficaciously process poop for FMT.

don't you think it's a bit of an assumption to say that no clinic in the world knows how to prepare and deliver FMT?
This is a ridiculous thing to say, and further indicates that you haven't reviewed the wiki.
 
This is irrelevant and a red herring. One can review the processes being done at labs, hospitals, and home environments, and clearly see that there is nothing vital that must be done in a lab or hospital setting to safely and efficaciously process poop for FMT.

It IS relevant, for two reasons.

1) It is actually quite often in science that there are unwritten procedural details that critically affect the success of a technique. I have often been told by the PIs (group leaders) in labs where I worked that a particular method that seemed useful to us had a bad track record of (not) working outside the lab where it was developed. It is also relatively common for a new graduate student to enter a lab, try and repeat an experiment previously done in the lab, and fail, even when following the procedure of others for whom it worked.

And it's not even like in all these cases the previous person who got it to work is deliberately withholding information--there's just a hidden variable of whose "hands" are doing it. Maybe they always turned the tube sideways after vortexing it because they didn't have a tube rack next to them to stand it up in, and somehow that made a difference... or they had a reagent sitting on the bench while labeling tubes and that time affected something. If these kind of things happen in basic science with purified proteins in a tube then the potential is even greater in something like FMT that deals with complex materials excreted by a human while going about his or her "messy" day. And certain things like gastroscopy can simply not be done at home. Even placing a nasogastric tube is beyond most if not all DIYers.

2) Probably more relevant for OP's case (or rather, his/her donor's case), the whole concern about liability/harm is often more about who is vouching for/accepting responsibility for the outcome than about what he/she knows. When doctors are involved, either directly in a procedure or more indirectly when recommending for a patient to do something, they accept responsibility if the patient is harmed, and it has "teeth" as they can be sued and presumably have the money and insurance to pay for it. A random person on the internet, even if as knowledgeable as a doctor regarding biological facts, doesn't accept this level of responsibility. This is what seems to turn some people off (not saying this is a good thing, but it is).
 
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