Watching a great doco on why worms, that is gut worms, seem to inhibit allergies!! It's about a couple of scientists looking at the difference between kids with gut worms and running allergy tests on them and then getting rid of the worms and testing them a year later...looks like there is a correlation and that the worms have an effect on the immune system.....so don't go worming those kids now!!! WOW!! Who would have thought!!!
wow, that's strange isn't it? i actually know a boy who got worms. we're in a farming community and the boy's family had a sheep farm. he was pretty sick with stomach cramps and diahrea for half a year before the doctors figured it out. i have sheep too and have had several animals die from parasites. worms can get pretty serious. make sure you get your children to wash their hands well after doing farm chores or touching farm animals. this is something you should keep in mind if you like to take your kids to petting zoos or farm tours. it's not very likely to happen, but just wash those hands, just in case! kathy
that boy sounds like he had the sort of worms you don't want!! They had loads of excellent scary examples of those types on this doco too!! Seems that there are some types of gut worms that may have a more symbiotic relationship with us than we thought though...there was also a lady who tried a trial, it was a last resort for dealing with a bleeding kidney or bowel or something and next procedure was a colostomy bag so she thought what the hey and did this worm treatment trial and kabamm, she is mended!! I am too scared to look at exactly how you are meant to zap worms!!!!
l was watching the Body Snatchers on ABC last week, was all about worms. Apparently there is over 300 different types..One man swollowed a tape worm cyst for a experiment. he let it grow inside of himself for 11weeks and when he deficated it out it was 3 metres long..
that was the first episode and still makes my skin crawl and my feet twitch!, he grew it vokuntarily you know...the nutter!!!!!! some of those other more exotic buggers got me more though...urkle that is got me in grossed me out more...check out any weird symptoms I say after watching this show!!!!!!
Zappers just put low voltage throughout your body, just high enough to kill parasites and bacteria n such... you don't even feel it. Also there are lots of safe herbal formulas to kill parasites~~like wormwood, cloves, and black walnut~~~ I think its a good idea to do a clean up now and then. They have found a lot of problems are caused by parasites and doctors rarely ever check into that.
that zapper site says that the average person has 2 pounds of parasites in them, ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! kathy
I saw another show today that was about a similar subject...it was talking about the lack of gut bacteria and the possible connection to m.s. and other such diseases where immune systems go nuts and start attacking the body instead of disease, and also the lack of worms and the rise of the prevelance of things like crones disease....basically the idea went that if the immune system doesn't get practice at attacking baddies then it eventually turns in on itself... and yup, they said that about the two pounds of parasites in the show today but they pointed out that there are good parasites too...which will be particularly true if you found out that they give your immune system a good work out and keep it doing it's job properly!!!
There is a lot of money, a lot of quackery and a lot of lies now in the new "parasite" theories. Don't beleive everything you read.
When my cousin was about four, he walked up to my aunt and said, look mommy I have a tail, and he was holding onto about a three foot long worm that was just about exactly where a tail would be........she freaked.
Oh, yeah, people DO get parasites. But there is a mania about them, and weird "alternative" ways to treat them. A lot of my "health conscious" clients are doing this, and ODDLY enough they are all told "Well, your parasites are in a non breeding, resting stage, and attached to your intestines now, so we can't see them on the tests, but your symptoms indicate you are INFESTED with them. Here, buy my $150.00 a bottle tonic for each member of your family, (each bottle lasts one person one month) and take it for 18 months, and then you will feel better....." QUACK QUACK I had pinworms when I was a kid, OMG, I thought I was going to die of embarresment! But there is treatment which can wipe them out fairly quickly and they DO show up on tests. I've seen those huge Tape worms YUCK!!!!! Was your cousin around a lot of farm animals?
Blackguard. One like this? <A href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mennoniteusa.org/news/news/photos/tapeworms-claude.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mennoniteusa.org/news/news/02_25_04.htm&h=384&w=350&sz=55&tbnid=C2A-HUCqv30J<img src=" target=_blank>http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:C2A-HUCqv30J:www.mennoniteusa.org/news/news/photos/tapeworms-claude.jpg
They did live in the country..... I have heard that wormwood tea is a good cure, though it tastes horrid.
It's a hallucinagen, too. Hard on the liver. If you want to go natural, try Pumpkin seeds. Then get retested to make sure they are gone.
LOL, wow I was unaware of this parasite trend, how odd! I'm afraid to look at the tapeworm pic. I think I'll wait til after I've had my dinner (it's spagetti, ha-ha!) We can get a natural wormer for our sheep that has wormwood, but you have to be careful, it can make the animals sick if you give them too much. kathy
I think these were the ones they were referring to as being something good for your body to get and deal with in that it helped the immune system "learn" what to attack and what not to attack....lots of people got worms when we were kids...I am not sure nowadays...do kids still get them so much? Or have we wiped them out with our use of combantrin and other such medicines? I do remember them as itchy little buggers though and so I am sure we are not meant to live with them on a permanent basis...just long enough to give our bodies a bit of educating!!!
