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cruelshoes
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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: Hookworm may Help Treat Celiac Disease |
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Weird, but interesting.
http://www.medindia.net/news/Hookworm-may-Help-Treat-Celiac-Disease-59782-1.htm#
| Quote: | New research has suggested that hookworms may help treat celiac disease. Previously researchers had found that these worms helped treat asthma.
The trail involved 20 people with celiac disease, who were deliberately infected with hookworm. "We found patients who had hookworms on board did very well in terms of their sensitivity to gluten exposure," lead author Brisbane gastroenterologist Dr James Daveson told ABC News.
The researchers felt that hookworm altered the immune system in some way and thus helped reduce the severity of celiac disease. |
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celiacmaine-iac
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 I think I'll stick with the GF diet.
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cruelshoes
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| teacherpat wrote: | | I had hookworms as a child |
Must be all those unmentionable pig parts you are eating. 
Who knows, maybe they will find the part of the hookworm that helps, and isolate that. I don't know that I would want to be given worms, but I think any research in the area of celiac is fascinating.
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teacherpat
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| cruelshoes wrote: | [
Must be all those unmentionable pig parts you are eating.
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Actually, its because I did not have shoes till I started first grade. The larve burrow through the skin on your feet. Rural poverty does that. 
I agree with you, though-If the worms secrete some sort of immune moderating substance, that would be very interesting.
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STZ
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I think i'll pass on the Hookworm!!!!
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Home-Based-Mom
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Likewise.
Didn't doctors once prescribe smoking to help relieve stress? Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
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Mik
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Infection levels can be controlled with hookworm (they dont reproduce in your body) and none of the subjects in australia got anemia. They all decided to keep their worms when the study was done!! Hookworms are pretty safe when used in adult populations and they are easy to kill with a 2 day course of medicine if you have a negative reaction to them. They cause mild flulike symptoms for like 2 days when they are introduced, kind of like a flu shot actually. Then they live for 5 years in the body
Teacherpat you probably had ALOT of hookworms and you were a young child when you had them. Not a good situation but certianly not the same as infecting an adult with only a certian amount of them and monitoring them in a controlled setting.
Its certianly no substitute for a gluten free diet but it would help if you accidently ingested gluten to reduce the symptoms. My daughter loses bowel control for like 4 days and has stomach pains for 8. When she is older I hope this is a widely available treatment because it seems like it has a lot of promise for adults with celiac. |
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