Any concerns about covid vaccination affecting FMT quality?

[Hoping4AFix]

Have read through the wiki and the forum and this hasn't been touched on, although I'm sure you would have touched on it somewhere on Reddit (can't find anything through Google).

 

[Michael Harrop]

FMT donor quality?

There is general info about vaccines here https://humanmicrobiome.info/immune-system.

I don't recall any good evidence that COVID vaccines would be an issue for FMT donors. Someone shared some links via email but they were poor quality. I think one was a retracted paper from S. Hazan about bifido being reduced.

 

[Hoping4AFix]

FMT donor quality?

There is general info about vaccines here https://humanmicrobiome.info/immune-system.

I don't recall any good evidence that COVID vaccines would be an issue for FMT donors. Someone shared some links via email but they were poor quality. I think one was a retracted paper from S. Hazan about bifido being reduced.

Thanks, I had skipped that page - had no idea there was vaccine stuff on it!

Reviewing what I'd seen previously, it appears that the covid vaccine and infection of the virus itself both have the potential to affect the gut, so not isolated to the vaccine.

I developed some kind of IBD condition a week after having a Moderna shot, so had it in my head that it likely had some impact on the microbiome, but probably a different mechanism.

Disregard I guess.

Thanks.

 

[Michael Harrop]

so had it in my head that it likely had some impact on the microbiome, but probably a different mechanism

As you said, both vaccines and the viruses they're made to protect against have the ability to impact the gut microbiome.