Can drinking worm eggs treat Multiple Sclerosis?
Some UW Hospital patients will soon test an unusual treatment: They'll drink a cocktail of worm eggs, which will hatch inside their bodies.
Doctors say the low-grade infection of worms, harvested from pigs, can help regulate faulty immune systems. The patients have multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks nerve cells.
"The yuck factor is hard to get over," acknowledged Dr. John Fleming, the UW Hospital neurologist who plans to launch a study of worm therapy next month. "But the idea has scientific merit."
Patients with other conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome, have tried worm therapy elsewhere. It has eased symptoms without causing known side effects............
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Worm eggs, hatching in my body, producing a low grade fever, which might cause my MS to flare up due to my heightened immune system trying to fight the low-grade fever produced by hatching worms, ewwwwwwwwwww. I think I'll pass on that proposed therapy..ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Lauren
SAME HERE, I WOULD NOT HAVE THEM IN MY BODY IF YOU GAVE ME MILLOIN POUNDS,
MAKES ME WANT TO BE SICK THINKING ABOUT THEM,
SO NO THANKS , I WILL PASS ON THAT ONE,
I KEEP MS ,
SAR X
Interesting idea. I've heard of another experiment where people deliberately contaminated themselves with tiny parasitic worms to test their theories that this would kick-start the immune system. They got through winter without catching a cold and found their hay fever just didn't happen in the summer. The idea behind it is that we have lazy immune systems as a result of too sterile a living environment.
I think the idea has merit and would certainly be prepared to give it a try, under medically-controlled conditions. After all, is it so different from eating "live" yoghurt?
If it helps all the better, but personally, I'd be more inclined to try try bee venom first if I had to.
