Posted on 06/19/2023 12:35:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Could a dose of hookworms provide a medication-free alternative to people with inflammatory bowel disease? The Malaghan Institute's team thinks it's possible. The feasibility study found hookworms were a safe and long-lasting treatment for participants with ulcerative colitis.
In this randomized controlled trial, patients currently in remission from ulcerative colitis were infected with a controlled dose of hookworm larvae or given placebo, and followed up over twelve months.
"We believe that the effect of hookworms may not be strong enough to push someone from an active disease state into disease remission. However, once someone is in remission hookworm could keep them there, prevent them from having disease flares and reduce the need to take medication, such as steroids, which suppresses the immune system and has adverse effects."
"One of the key findings from this study was that a single dose of hookworm can reside in the body for several years, if not longer," says Dr. Mules. "This means that if hookworm is effective at preventing disease flares you can get infected and potentially no longer have to daily medicate. 'Infect and forget'. The worms just sit there in the background and do their thing. I think that's where the power of this therapy lies."
"We did see that around the 6–8 week mark participants reported mild tummy symptoms, but those had all resolved by week 10–12," says Dr. Mules. "Otherwise, compared to the placebo group there was no significant differences in adverse events.
"The fact that these worms are well tolerated and safe to give to people with inflammatory disease is really important. One of the big safety questions was if the immune response triggered by the hookworm in the early stages of the infection could trigger a flare of ulcerative colitis. We did not see this, in these patients."
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Just be careful to not infect others.
Indeed.
The patient's feces would have to be treated as a biohazard.
And ... "mild tummy symptoms"??? Can we talk like adults?
How to hookworms tolerate ivermectin?
Ya ..and a bleeding with leeches always brings my fever down .. me at the barbor shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
a little 7-up....or Cocoa Cola......warm...and no bubbles...
Been interested in this for over a decade when I read an article about a guy who has stopped the effects of an autoimmune disease.
I came this close to doing it but then realized….. i’d be infested with worms. There’s a Futurama episode about something like that.
I have that. I think I’ll do stick with my pills.
Before long, we’d ALL have hookworms from the Mexicans fertilizing vegetables using hookworm feces. What’s worse, hep A or hookworm?
Hookworms are curable.
Ivermectin, IIRC, will do the trick quite nicely.
I hear tell your feces are incredibly foul smelling at first, before the infestation is completely cleared.
Hookworms have been used for years now against lethal type asthma attacks. Because most of the hookworms, which used to be endemic to the US South, were wiped out with both outhouses and indoor plumbing, they had to recover a sample of hookworm eggs from Africa.
Raising them in a terrarium, a smear of hookworm eggs would be applied to the arm. After a short time, the larvae would burrow through the skin, causing a slight rash, then travel in the bloodstream to the lungs, causing a distinctive cough.
One treatment would work for several months, but then they would be naturally eliminated from the body, so another smear would have to be applied.
Oddly enough, a different worm, the pig whipworm, has been shown to be effective against Crohn’s disease. There is a breed of human whipworm that can live for a long time in the human body, but it has detrimental effects, so they use the pig whipworm, as it will only live in a human for a few weeks.
I have UC, 4 years of living hell. If I were to go into remission and they offered me hookworms to keep me there, I’d probably do it.
“’Infect and forget’: A dose of hookworms could help patients manage inflammatory bowel disease”
Sounds like a plan, and then once you’re cured, take Ivermectin and those worms will be toast!
I believe it is what it secretes to prevent our bodies from attacking it.
It greatly tunes down immune responses to anything in the gut.
Inkdude, I believe that is exactly what these people arrived at, and were happy with the result.
Unfortunately, it can’t permanently change the immune issue, so you need to keep them.
Interesting. I wonder where one would get these hookworm samples.
That horse paste will kill you. We were told it’s very dangerous in 2021 and 2022.
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