[neverdem]

Association between parasite infection and immune responses in multiple sclerosis.

[Jeff Chandler]

Parasitic association with immune response in Croh's Disease www.webmd.com/content/Article/87/99477.htm

[Quix]

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[rdb3]

Interesting...

[neverdem]

I'm going to start a convention here. When I make a link to a thread, and I made a link to a professional abstract, or I see some real fascinating stuff, I'll indicate it after the link by a number within parentheses, e.g. (12) which indicates the comment number on that thread to find it.

Scientific breakthrough: Danish researchers find possible schizophrenia cause (12)

It's Not So Bad To Be Fat (25)

Concern as revived 1918 flu virus kills monkeys

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[Quix]

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[Chewbacca]

I sent the article link to my sister who has MS.

I doubt she will be running out to get a gut full of worms though.

[Tunehead54]

reminder bump for am - thanks. :-)

[Gamecock]

Same seems to happen with asthma.

Sometimes I think we have sterilized our world to the point that our bodies can't deal with it....

[lkco]

Interesting ... I was diagnosed with MS 12 years ago. About 6 years back I was bitten by a tick. I started feeling really tired and awful and feverish. The only thing my doctor could find was VERY high levels of eosinophils ... he was worried it might be cancer, and sent me to a hematologist. They found nothing.

After 2 months of antibiotics (levaquin), I felt better, but the eosinophil level never got quite all the way down. Before then I was having 3-4 MAJOR exacerbations per year ... solu-medrol ... the whole bit ... and I was on Beta-Seron, then Avonex.

After that bout of eosinophilia, I've had one very, very minor MS attack (I'm not even sure it was one it was so mild ... maybe a flare of old symptoms?). I was never tested for intestinal parasites, but don't they cause other symptoms? Interesting.

[bjcintennessee]

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[KeyWest]

Interesting as it meshes with bee venom therapy for MS. The same thing happens with a slowing of the progression of the disease and bee venom also kicks up the immune system. In essence, both treatments are counterintuitive, sine it would seem that you would want to suppress the immune system, not kick it up with an auto-immune disease.

[Puddleglum]

My wife has MS and I let her read this. I hope it leads to a treatment.

Okay, part of me was trying to gross her out, too.

[1234]

very grateful to be on your ping list

[ConservativeMind]

Rather than using parasites to reduce inflammation, one should consider eating lots of Omega-3s while reducing Omega-6s.

[cgk]

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[Robert A Cook PE]

Yet today's nanny-state (mothers and power-hungry politicians/bureaucrats/day-care regulators and schools) are DEMANDING an ever-increasing level of sanitation: Anti-bacterial soaps will be working AGAINST the long-term health of the kids.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

I've recently been diagnosed with RRMS... thanks so much for the information/links.

[Smokin' Joe]

bttt

[dawn53]

Thanks for the ping. I read the article a few days ago. Somebody had posted it on an MS forum. I have a sister who lives in Central America. Maybe I she visit her in hopes of picking up a parasite!

[WellsFargo94]

Know someone that has MS with many exacerbations a year of varying degrees in intensity, since they've been on a low dose of cozaar (25 mg daily) not one exacerbation in over two years... lots of stress and mitigating circumstances to warrant an exacerbation but not one, a bit of weakness from time to time but nothing that required medical intervention. The doc said that it wouldn't hurt, so let's try it, and they did.