Table 3.

Adverse effects of FMT in IBD patients.

FMT in IBD-Adverse Effects
Short-Term Minor Adverse Effects	Potential Long-Term Adverse Effects
Abdominal tenderness	Infection and/or sepsis (recognized and unrecognized)
Abdominal pain	Obesity
Bloating	Transmission of enteric pathogens
Flatulence	Recurrent IBD
Diarrhea/Constipation	Introducing chronic diseases based on alterations in the intestinal microbiota such as: −colon cancer, −obesity, −atherosclerosis, −diabetes, −asthma, −non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, −autism.
Borborygmus	Disease transmission: cardiometabolic diseases, autoimmune diseases and neurological diseases
Nausea and vomiting especially in patients that have an oral FMT route	Transmitting unrecognized infectious agents that may cause a disease some years later such as HIV or hepatitis C
Transient fever	Abnormally low blood pressure
Adverse effects after sedation	Recurrent UC