http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/1215/ speaks of a
parasite which migrates from the gut to the lungs and may be responsible for
some cases of CFS. From the year 2000.
It occurs to me that what silver users are doing with CS/DMSO/etc nebulizing
could do a lot of good in treating this. It is very hard to find them in
sputum, and a routine treatment could treat them without anyone ever
necessarily knowing they were there.
There are probably herbal products that could be added to the mix
specifically to target any such beasties. (wormwood occasionally?)
Similarly orally, plus coconut oil for the parasites.
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Dr. Klapow Well, Roger, they have some specialized anatomical structures
that suggest that they're related to parasites of animals that live in the
jungles of Southeast Asia. In fact, there's been somewhat of a history of
hard to diagnose parasites coming out of that area and being brought back to
"Western" countries after periods of warfare. It happened in the Victorian
era when French soldiers were returning from this area and brought back the
chronic parasite Strongyloides stercoralis to Europe where it was first
diagnosed in 1894. It also happened again in World War II. This time British
soldiers became infected while they were imprisoned in Burma returned to
England and 30 years later, in 1974 they were diagnosed with chronic
parasites they had gotten while they were in prison. It's kind of a
testament to how difficult some of these parasites are to find and treat. I
would like to look at people who've been to Southeast Asia and I think I
plan to do that as soon as I finish with the large trial I'm doing on CFS
patients now.
... ... ...
Dr. Klapow I'm really not sure. What I can tell you is this. I've never seen
a fresh transmissible stage of the parasite in any sputum sample I've seen
so far. I've done a couple of hundred samples at this point. So I don't
think there's any evidence right now of casual transmission. But roundworm
parasites are typically acquired by eating contaminated food, but an
outbreak of Cryptostrongylus infection, if it were transmitted in this way,
would look very different then a typical food poisoning incident where
people get sick within a couple of hours after eating.
Dr. Mazlen That's due to the long latency that you mentioned.
Dr. Klapow Cryptostrongylus is very small but it produces a larva which is
very large so there's an implication here that it must be reproducing very
slowly and possibly has a very long latency time. Of course, we know that
the outbreak of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome usually take place over several
months and in some cases a couple of years and that I think would be
consistent with the possibility of a food borne infection with a very long
latency period.
Dr. Mazlen Well, now we're going to turn to the clinical side. Most of the
time that doctors are looking for parasitosis, they look to see elevated
eosinophil and serum IgE, or immunoglobulin E, levels in patients. Isn't
this usually the case?
Dr. Klapow Yes, but that's the first question that I get from doctors when I
tell them that I found what I think is a new species of roundworm parasite.
Where's the elevated IgE? And the answer is elevated IgE is mainly apparent
in acute roundworm infections. With time, the chronic parasites are able to
suppress the IgE response and many of them produce a clinical picture where
the patients either have normal or lower than the normal average level of
IgE and, in fact, that's the picture you see in CFS and in all the studies
I've reviewed, IgE is lower in CFS patients than in healthy control
populations.
etc
Intersting also on the subject:
http://www.nutritional-healing.com.au/content/condition.php?condition=CFS/FMS
Rowena
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