Parasites

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Has any have any info on parasites in the human body, how to tell if you have them (read somewhere on the web that something like only 20% of human parasites have tests to determine their presence, and the tests that are out there have only an 85% success rate), and natural remedies? Worms in particular. Figure since I worm my dogs and goats, my family and I are exposed to worms as well - at the minimum.

-- Eric in TN (eric_m_stone@yahoo.com), March 25, 2002

Answers

I sometimes wish I had tape worm , it would be so much easier than dieting !

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@hotmail.com), March 25, 2002.

if your worried about worms,, an old remedy was eating some chewing tobabco. Military medics book says it works for pin worms also. Tape worm,, you feel for an end,, and pull it out,, no more than a half inch a day

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), March 25, 2002.

Fast for 24 hours and swallow a wad of Beechnut. I used to use tobbacco on my animals, but now it is cheaper to buy wormers instead .

Liquid fast for 24 hours, eat about a pound of shelled walnuts, a few hours later drink a large cup of stong penneyroyal tea.

My grandma's remedy for pinworms in kids: a spoonful of sugar with a spoonful of kerosene added shoved down the hatch of the kid.

-- Laura (LadybugWrangler@somewhere.com), March 25, 2002.


Laura,, after that pin worm remedy,, did you have to use a match before bedtime??? WOW

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), March 25, 2002.

Kerosene. It's what's for dinner.

Bet CPS would be all over you if they heard about that!

-- Doreen (bisquit@here.com), March 25, 2002.



Luckily I never had pinworms. I have swallowed Copenhagen, though.

-- Laura (LadybugWrangler@somewhere.com), March 25, 2002.

Hi, Eric. From what I've read the Native Americans and early homesteaders used to worm themselves regularly. Especially in the spring after a long winter eating sometimes questionable meat. I think this was part of spring tonics and eating the early bitter greens (dandelion, chickweed, etc.). There are lots and lots of herbs that have vermifugal properties. Artemisia (Wormwood) is a well known one. Black walnut hulls and the bark of Butternut (white walnut) can also be used. Garlic, pumpkin seed (expels tape worms), and thyme are common ingredients found today. Epazote (American wormseed) is native to Mexico and is used against roundworms, hookworms and intestinal ameba. Just today I read an article about herbs used during the Civil War for medicine. The article mentioned Pinkroot (Spigelia marilandica) which was used by Native Americans, frontiersmen, and rural people up until the 1960's (and some still today) to expel worms.

As far as symptoms of having intestinal worms, if a person is generally healthy, there probably won't be any noticeable signs. Occasional adominal pain and slight weight loss are possible. Do you get in the mail any of those bulk postcards aimed at the home gardener? In that package is usually a pamphlet about "The Secret World of Parasites" (who's ultimate goal is to get you to purchase their very expensive cleansing kit) and it claims that there are many conditions that can be caused by intestinal worms. If I was experiencing any of these problems I might try worming as a possible remedy.

I would recommend checking out the kits sold at health food stores. I think one product's name is something like ParaRid and there is a kit for children, too. These kits would have instructions and all the correct doses of a good combination of herbs. Most of the herbs I've mentioned can be toxic to humans if the correct dosage is not taken.

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), March 26, 2002.


Thanks ya' all! A friend of mine is actually doing one of the cleansers now, so I figure I'll wait and see what happens with him before I make and final decisions.

-- Eric in TN (eric_m_stone@yahoo.com), March 27, 2002.

It always makes me laugh when I see those parasite ads. They like to show a colon that looks like a kitchen pipe in need of Drano!LOL Actually, if a person's colon looked like that he would be written up in medical history. I have seen the inside of people's intestines via colonoscopy. The intestine secretes mucous that does not allow gunk to build up the way those ads say. Also, most americans do not have major parasite infestations. If you normally wear shoes out of doors, particularly if you have animals in the yard, if you wash your hands before eating or preparing food or using the toilet, wash your fruits and vegetables, cook your chicken and pork well done, and take reasonable care of yourself you are not likely to have parasites. And to top it off, some research has shown that certain parasites may actually be beneficial.;o)

-- kim in CO (kimk61252@hotmail.com), March 29, 2002.

Eric, Let me lock you on, because I almost kicked the bucket from a parasitic infection that doctors failed to diagnose and I had to take matters into my own hands.

First, very few parasites exist in the colon because there is nothing for them to eat. They exist in your upper GI, organs, and tissues. Poor hygiene (i.e. normal non hospital hospital stuff) can lead to reinfection that amplifies the disease, but many of these boogars cut out the middle man by laying in your stomach and then retreating to your intestines or floating about your bloodstream or getting to your lungs and letting the larvae crawl out and drop down into your stomach.

Second, many of the most common parasites enter through your skin (barefeet, swimming, etc). Only tapeworms, in terms of likely culprits, enter directly through the food you eat. Eggs can stay alive for months on end and larvae will burrow into anything warm, enter your bloodstream and then camp out wherever they like. It can be passed like the flu--just a little harder, but its just a matter of time.

Third, eating like a rabbit can help, but it will not kill them. It will just keep them in check and ready to explode any time your immune system crashes.

Fourth, check out the Physcians Desk Reference on herbal medication and you will see that many of the herbal remedies people tout as worm killers are not classified as such in a manual intended for herbal practitioners. I can tell you, after being nearly destroyed by these things, that herbal medicines may put a dent in them because the weakest might bite it or some may decide to pack up, but it is by no means a fix--if it were people would use it or some of these ingredients would be hybridized into modern medicine.

Fifth, if you want to kill them off you will have to use prescription drugs--derivatives of herbs and plants so they work better so I never understood the reluctance to take them---It has to be a multi-prong approach because no tests will ever reveal what's laying you up...you must repeat it in three weeks to kill any hatched eggs...and you also must change your diet which will come easy because eating healthy will no longer make you feel miserable and you will find yourself eating more fruits and vegetables with no effort at all...these things hate vegetables so eats lots of them and keep your fiber intake sky high.

Flagyl, Vermox, Niclosamide (single dose, so preferable) or Albendenzol (at least five days). Take Flagyl alone three doses a day for 10 days. Once you begin the vermox then combine that with an antibiotic called doryx (doxicycline). Doryx is used to treat chronic parasitic infections and dissentery in combination with a worm killer- -but no American doctors have a clue.

Flagyl is an antibiotic that kills amoebas and protozoas. Doryx works well with killing many major and severe infections of all sorts Gonorehea, syphylus, etc. The other medicines simply prevent the bugs from absorbing glucose so it kills them by starvation and the reason for two different meds is that each covers different types of bugs.

Recovery includes many vitamins, fruit juices, and easy to digest foods, as well as changing to a mostly fruit/veg diet to allow your intestine to heal itself and get used to absorbing nutrients again. You might feel overwhelmed by sleep as if sick but feel frustrated because you aren't feeling sick, but I believe that's just your body healing itself.

Using herbal products is like using the gas, acetone, or any other destructive consumption--of course its going to kill some of those things, but how many times can you do that before it finishes you and the ones that lived through the first dose are probably going to live through whatever else you send there way, because the herbs don't enter your bloodstream, but merely roll through your intestine attempting to tick off the bugs--that are animals and share the same organs that we do.

I hope this helps, but like everyone says, you will feel a ton better no matter what route you choose to take because killing just one of these suckers can only but make you feel better.

-- Bryan Choate (brchoate@yahoo.com), May 12, 2002.



Hi, Perhaps, not exactly addressing the issue, but I am currently working on a theory and a "fumigant" remedy for ridding the brain of mocroscopic worms with an affinity for certain tissue in specialized areas of the brain. I believe this is the cause of Schizophrenia and other serious mental heath diseases. If anyone knows more using this line of thinking, please contact me.

-- REGINA ANN GLAUDER (glauder@usinter.net), September 24, 2002.

I ONCE WAS HOSPITALIZED AFTER EATING SOME BAD SHELL FISH. AN INVESTIGATOR FROM THE FLORIDA HEALTH DEPARTMENT CAME TO SEE ME WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL DURING HIS INVESTIGATION. HE ADVISED ME THAT EXTENSIVE STUDIES ON BACTERIA, PARASITES AND WORMS FOUND THAT ONE FOOD ITEM COMBATED AND KILLED THE MAJORITY OF THE ORGANISMS AND PISSED OFF THE REST SO BAD THEY WANTED TO LEAVE THE BODY ASAP, EVEN THROUGH THE BLOOD. BELIEVE IT OR NOT HE RECOMMENDED HEAVY DOSE OF TOBASCO SAUCE. HE SAID NOT OTHER PEPPER SAUCES BECAUSE THEY ARE WEAKER, BUT HEAVY TOBASCO SAUCE. HE SAID IF IT BURNED COMING OUT THE OTHER END THAT IT WAS A SUFFICIENT DOSAGE. OLD FOLKS USED IT IN LOUISIANNA AND FLORIDA EXTENSIVELY BEFORE MODERN MEDICINE TO COMBAT TAPE WORMS, PIN WORMS AND BACTRIAL INFECTIONS. (BY THE WAY PORK GETS A BAD RAP, PORK IS BETTER FOR YOU THAN CHICKEN,BEEF OR OTHER COMMON MEATS.) COOK A CUP OF RICE AND ADD 4 OZ. OF TOBASCO, CHOKE IT DOWN AND WILL GUARANTEE YOU WORM FREE WHEN IT PUSHES OUT.

-- stephen m. granite (bayvalutow@aol.com), December 16, 2002.

this isint an answer, its a questionyous were talking about symtons well it may sound kind of grose but i can feel them in my anus'most anoying'there very small white.do any of you no what type they are.

-- philip roney (bigphib@hotmail.com), December 17, 2002.

The small white ones are called thread or pin worms. I have been trying to find out what ways there are to get rid of them. I know I have them and I think it is possible that my kids could have them but apart from some gross examination I can only guess. To recap what I have found is that diet and hygiene can help to prevent but a dose of something strong is really needed to get rid of them. Medical sites say that they do no harm but I find that hard to believe as at a minimum they must mess up the water balance and nutrition is some way. Other sites attribute all sorts to worms from headaches, coughs to feeling grumpy! Well I have felt like that recently so I am now on the war path.

Regards

-- Nicola Meneses (nicolameneses@hotmail.com), May 30, 2003.


THE BEST AND MOST NATURAL WAY TO GET RID OF PIN WORMS IS CAMAMILE TEA, DRINK A CUP ON IT 3 TIMES A DAY FOR A FEW DAYS. MY CHILDREN HAD PIN WORMS A FEW TIMES AND I USED THIS REMEDY, IT WORKS EVERYTIME.

-- D. R (CORAL34INCO@AOL.COM), July 27, 2003.


recently my family got pin worms. the doctor gave a perscription. you check the anus area at night when the child is sleeping. you sneak in (keep it dark) use a flashlight and spred the butt cheeks and if you see worms you have them. pin worms are small & white.

-- kim in ga (albundyy1234@ aol.com), September 01, 2003.

My kids just had pin worms and the doctor said Pin X is good for this. You also need to clean all the bedding once a week(don't flap the sheets around cause this will spead the eggs into the air and you will breath them in reinfesting yourself).Wet mop the floor once a week also. My son had it where his butt would itch he would scratch and the eggs would get under the fingernail and the cycle goes on again. Also make sure to wash hand after each time in the bathroom and keep nails short. Also make sure they have a show in the morning I guess to wash away any eggs that may have been layed during the night. Hope this helps.

-- Dee in La. (CHLD4@aol.com), December 07, 2003.

my 4 yr old daughter was waking up all through the nite, crying, because she itched.(her butt and private). well, i thought she had a yeast infection. then one nite i noticed that she wasn't red on her private, i was thinking, this can't be a yeast infection, and also the medicine for the yeast infection wasn't working.so, i layed her down, gotta warm wash cloth and thought washing her would help. well, it didn't, so i spread her lil'butt cheeks,and whatta you know, i seen pin worms. i freaked out totally! well, she was complaining that the itching was in her private. so i gently opened it up, and i seen them! i didn't even know they could be in there! i wanted to cry. finally after a couple of hours she fell asleep. i immmediately went strait to my computer and looked up pin worms. she had all the signs.all along she was being treated for a yeast infection, along with everything else, and it was pinworms. the next morning we got up and went to her doctor. he gave her, along with the rest of the family, vermox! he gave her 2 tablets a day for 3 days, he gave the rest of us 1 tablet for 1 day and 7 days later another. he also suggested to take them every 6 months. kids are real prone to catching them, passing it in the family. these things are for real! read up on it, look at all the signs and get it treated! i was really embarrassed at first, her doc said not to be. 80%of all humans have some type of parasite and don't even know it! who would have ever thought? surely not me!! so, if your child is itchy and you think its a yeast infection, think again, it might be pinworms. they infect even the cleanest people.just keep hands and under the nails clean at all times. and believe it or not,walking bare footed outside causes them also.

-- crissy bans (moodyandshy@aol.com), April 08, 2004.

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