Helminth therapy: Why I purposely infected myself with human hookworm. (long)(cliffs)

[Pluto1998]

I actually got treated with hookworms for allergies and hay fever in 2008 with 30 hookworms. I was totally symptom free for the duration I had the worms, but the symptoms came back when the hookworms died, after about 3 years.

I have been kind of second guessing my original decision to use hookworms to treat allergies. If any of you people know about immunology. An allergy is an disruption and overreaction of the Th2 immune response, while autoimmune disease is a overreaction of the Th1 immune response. Both of these immune responses exist in balance in a person with a healthy immune system.

I think the goal in treating allergies should be promoting and increasing the Th1 immune response, which will down regulate the allergy causing Th2 immune response.

[AgentSkyhawk]

dude...

[Orwell84]

This seems like a bad ****ing idea....

I don't know much about Cronhs, but why not just have the irritated tissues removed? Your digestive system should be able to compensate for the lost 10 cm.

[mahousesn]

Subbed OP. Ballsy move. Wishing you the best.

[reiffenstein]

Inb4 krokodil reaction

[Pluto1998]

This seems like a bad ****ing idea....

I don't know much about Cronhs, but why not just have the irritated tissues removed? Your digestive system should be able to compensate for the lost 10 cm.

This is not always an option, as the inflammation can reappear in another part of the digestive tract.

Besides, hookworms have been tested for millions of years, unlike some of the dangerous, expensive and side-effect filled pharmaceutical drugs.

The only side-effects I had with hookworms is a rash at the site of inoculation and some stomach pain after eating, both which lasted only for a few weeks.

[MiscFBtroll]

Not nearly enough research for me to try something like that. My school is actually doing major research on BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhea) and have found that its strikingly similar to crohn's disease.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340021/

http://www.vido.org/

Theres possibilities for some major breakthroughs in treating CD in the next couple years.

[ajn]

op how big do the hookworms get?

someone on reddit had one



if that's what's gonna be living in your stomach, you are a much stronger man than me sir.

[reiffenstein]

^disgusting........... how are you about to get them into your stomach? swallow them as they are? damn hardcore

[MyBodyIsRdy420]

we want updates

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[Pluto1998]

op how big do the hookworms get?

someone on reddit had one
http://i.imgur.com/EpSel.jpg


if that's what's gonna be living in your stomach, you are a much stronger man than me sir.

Hookworms only grow to a few millimetres.

[Vagatarian]

If anyone is interested there's a recent article in nature outlining some current research in the field - Weinstock, J (2012),"The worm returns".

[Pluto1998]

^disgusting........... how are you about to get them into your stomach? swallow them as they are? damn hardcore

That is not a hookworm.

Hookworm larve( which can't be seen with the naked eye), penetrate through your skin and enter the blood stream. Once this happens, they enter the lungs. The larve mature in the lungs and once ready, they climb the trachea and reach the throat, where they are swallowed and enter the stomach. The hookworms attach to themselves to the small intestine and feed on small quantities of blood and release substances into the body which modulate the immune system. They live in the small intestine, they mate and they release eggs(Hookworms can't increase in numbers in your body). They die after about 3-5 years.

[cake123]

That is not a hookworm.

Hookworm larve( which can't be seen with the naked eye), penetrate through your skin and enter the blood stream. Once this happens, they enter the lungs. The larve mature in the lungs and once ready, they climb the trachea and reach the throat, where they are swallowed and enter the stomach. The hookworms attach to themselves to the small intestine and feed on small quantities of blood and release substances into the body which modulate the immune system. They live in the small intestine, they mate and they release eggs(Hookworms can't increase in numbers in your body). They die after about 3-5 years.

Yea that was a ringworm. Dude misread the thread

[Yero91]

subbed.

[sc4rf4c3]

[HairyMerkin]

In for more updates

[RealDanger]

Op I think you're awesome and heres why

1. Your trying to cure yourself
2. If no one ever tried it how dafuq we know if it don't work
3. **** logic sometimes the world works differently then we think.

[PureCardio]

That is not a hookworm.

Hookworm larve( which can't be seen with the naked eye), penetrate through your skin and enter the blood stream. Once this happens, they enter the lungs. The larve mature in the lungs and once ready, they climb the trachea and reach the throat, where they are swallowed and enter the stomach. The hookworms attach to themselves to the small intestine and feed on small quantities of blood and release substances into the body which modulate the immune system. They live in the small intestine, they mate and they release eggs(Hookworms can't increase in numbers in your body). They die after about 3-5 years.

Oh my god. I have extremely bad food allergies(anaphylaxis within a minute with most seafood items, advised to carry epi at all times)...can't join the military because of this...but damn. That was groce, will still read up on it, perhaps I could have a cure...

[JoshSP1985]

If there's one thing I know about medecine. its that if I have to go to Tijuana to get it then its definitely safe and legitimate.

Yes because everything the US bans makes sense right?
You live in a country where it's illegal to ingest/smoke marijuana... we're bat **** ****ing retarded here.

[vtecaddict]

holy fuk

this is some depressing stuff.

[Addyman]

Op I think you're awesome and heres why

1. Your trying to cure yourself
2. If no one ever tried it how dafuq we know if it don't work
3. **** logic sometimes the world works differently then we think.

OP: Last Visit: Jun 29, 2012

I get the feeling that the treatment didn't go so well...

[jazi]

bumped to keep this **** rolling


Interesting insight into your condition and pro active solution seeking, OP. Good luck.

[EddieFromEurope]

OP: Last Visit: Jun 29, 2012

I get the feeling that the treatment didn't go so well...

damn...

[Dergo]

OP: Last Visit: Jun 29, 2012

I get the feeling that the treatment didn't go so well...

Or he's just not visiting it anymore.

I'm subbing just in case, I'm always skeptical about all kind of treatments, both modern medicine and natural.

[Pluto1998]

Journal articles on treating Crohns disease with helminth therapy.



Trichuris suis therapy in Crohn’s disease
http://www.springerlink.com/content/y6503t7144001r04/

An update on the use of helminths to treat Crohn’s
and other autoimmunune diseases
http://gut.bmj.com/content/54/1/87.short

The use of Trichuris suis and other helminth therapies
to treat Crohn’s disease
http://www.springerlink.com/content/cg8228371352n384/

Does the failure to acquire helminthic parasites predispose to Crohn’s disease?
http://www.fasebj.org/content/14/12/1848.short

Trichuris suis seems to be safe and possibly effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v9...g2003472a.html

[Bseic]

Op?

[MyBodyIsRdy420]

Oh my god. I have extremely bad food allergies(anaphylaxis within a minute with most seafood items, advised to carry epi at all times)...can't join the military because of this...but damn. That was groce, will still read up on it, perhaps I could have a cure...

...me too brah (refer to sig). Mine aren't to seafood but they are other common foods (egg, nuts, sesame). I'm wondering if I should give it a shot....

Have you ever had to use your epi pen before?

[Pluto1998]

...me too brah (refer to sig). Mine aren't to seafood but they are other common foods (egg, nuts, sesame). I'm wondering if I should give it a shot....

I have read that some people become allergic to sesame or nuts, through vaccines. Some vaccines contain oils, like those from peanuts. The problem arises when this peanut oil can contain traces of intact peanut proteins. Now, if you inject a whole, intact protein directly into your blood with an adjuvant(these stimulate the immune system to react to substances), your immune system basically becomes sensitized to peanut proteins. This is the same way they make mice in lab experiments allergic to peanuts.

The problem is, these vaccines can never be proven as the cause of peanut allergies as the pharmaceutical companies state that the oil used, contain no intact proteins. But contamination does occur and one vial of vaccine can contain intact proteins, while another does not.

[TruckDriver66]