Clinical research into a new technology to improve the effects of "poop transplants" for autistic children began in Shanghai on Saturday. The treatment, fecal microbiota transplant, in which fecal matter or a stool is collected from healthy donors, mixed with a saline or other solution, strained and infused into the colon by a colonoscopy or oral capsules, has been introduced in the clinical practice. FMT treatment is based on the theory of the brain-gut axis, which makes a connection between the central nervous and digestive systems.

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