Stool donor eligibility criteria

You may be eligible to donate if:

• You are healthy, aged 18-60, with regular bowel movements

• You live locally to Aberdeen, Scotland

• Are not overweight or underweight

• You don’t smoke tobacco (vaping does not exclude you)

• You’re not taking regularly prescribed medication

• You don’t suffer with depression or anxiety

• You’ve never been diagnosed with;

  • jaundice, hepatitis or known, previous or latent tuberculosis

  • HIV/AIDS

  • any type of cancer

  • inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease or Ulcerative Colitis)

  • a psychiatric condition (e.g. generalised anxiety disorder, moderate to severe clinical depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mania)

  • irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

  • chronic diarrhoea

  • any condition relating to the gastrointestinal tract or treated with proton pump inhibitors

  • metabolic syndrome or diabetes

  • multiple sclerosis

  • psoriasis

  • rheumatoid arthritis

  • Graves disease

  • systemic lupus erythematosus

  • autoimmune disease

  • chronic fatigue syndrome

  • a chronic pain syndrome including fibromyalgia

• You’ve never used clotting factor concentrates

• You’ve never been treated with Human Pituitary Growth Hormone or other Human Pituitary Extract

• You don’t have neurological or psychiatric conditions, risk of prion disease, or been told that any of your relatives had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

• You haven’t been treated with Tigason or Neotigason (e.g. for Psoriasis or Acne)

• You haven’t taken care of, or handled, monkeys or their body fluids

• You haven’t been told that you should never donate blood or faeces

• You haven’t received a dura matter (brain covering) graft

• You haven’t had any gastrointestinal surgery (e.g. appendectomy, gallbladder surgery, gastric bypass)

• You don’t have significant GI conditions including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), colorectal cancer

• You haven’t been pregnant in the last 12 months or are pregnant at present

• You’ve never had had infertility treatment

• You haven’t received an Anti-D in Ireland between 1 May 1977 & 31 July 1979 or 1 March 1991 & February 1994

• You or your partner don’t have HIV?

• You, your partner, or close household contacts, don’t have Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C

• You have never injected, or been injected, with non- prescribed drugs – EVEN ONCE OR A LONG TIME AGO (this includes bodybuilding or illicit drugs)

• You have never been given money or drugs in return for sex