Pre-Antibiotic Treatment Followed by Prolonged Repeated Faecal Microbiota Transplantation Improves Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An Observational Australian Clinical Experience

Table 1

Six-month FMT schedule.

Weeks of treatment	No. of infusions per week	Infusion techniques	FMT volume infused per week (ml)	Donor	Location performed
1–2	5	Colonoscopic infusion (day 1) and rectal retention enemas (days 2–10)	1500	Pooled centre donors	Centre
Home FMT education session					Centre
3	4	Rectal retention enemas	1200	Home donors	Home
4	3	Rectal retention enemas	900	Home donors	Home
5	2	Rectal retention enemas	600	Home donors	Home
6–11	1	Rectal retention enemas	300	Home donors	Home
12–24	0.5†	Rectal retention enemas	150	Home donors	Home

^†300 ml infused once fortnightly, not 150 ml per week.