The Food and Drug Administration approved the second-ever medical treatment made from donated human feces.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pill manufactured from donated human poop, the agency announced Wednesday . It's the second human poop-derived treatment ever approved; the first was an enema-based treatment cleared for use in December 2022.
Like the approved enema treatment, the newly approved pill, called Vowst, also contains live bacteria and has been approved for use in people ages 18 and older as a preventive treatment for recurrent infections with the bacterium Clostridioides difficile. Called C. diff for short, this infection is often acquired in health care settings after patients have taken antibiotics for a different infection.
So-called fecal microbiota products, made from healthy human gut bacteria, offer a new way to prevent recurrent C. diff by essentially replenishing the gut microbiome. And now, with the approval of Vowst, there's a version of the treatment that can be taken orally, rather than being administered as a liquid treatment into a patient's rectum.
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