[ConservativeMind]

A positive use for parasites.

Just be careful to not infect others.

[ConservativeMind]

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[NorthMountain]

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?

[MayflowerMadam]

How to hookworms tolerate ivermectin?

[1of10]

Ya ..and a bleeding with leeches always brings my fever down .. me at the barbor shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ

[Vaquero]

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.

[roving]

I have that. I think I’ll do stick with my pills.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[inkdude]

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.

[BobL]

“’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!

[so_real]

The hookworms are presumably feeding on the organism or material causing the inflammation labeled "colitis". Fine. How about we identify the causative agent and eliminate it instead of adding a parasite to feed on it? Or would that interfere with the advancement of GMO foods, pharmaceutical medications, or accidentally cure cancer?

[Boomer]

Interesting. I wonder where one would get these hookworm samples.