Reducing the severity and frequency of MS flare-ups using worm therapy.
Some patients at the University of Wisconsin's Hospital in Madison, WI will be trying a new treatment for MS on an experimental basis: drinking live worm eggs!
An article in the March 7 Wisconsin State Journal reports that Dr. John Fleming, the UW Hospital neurologist who plans to launch the worm therapy study, believes the idea has scientific merit, having already aided patients with irritable bowel syndrom. The whipworm eggs, harvested from pigs,hatch into larvae, the size of an eyelash, that stick to the inside of the intestine. In killing the larvae, the body unleashes an extra dose of regulatory T cells, which dampen overactive immune cells.
A worm-egg cocktail? Well, if it's flavored enough and it works, I'd take that over an injection any day!
Yum! Move over sour gummy
Yum! Move over sour gummy worms . . . I think it would be better as a snack mix that you could take between meals.
Sounds fabulous to me
Sounds fabulous to me ....but....what happens when my T-cells "learn" 'bout this???
I've been told that MS is likely the reason that I rarely get sick (ie: common cold is not so common in my world) & that it could very well be that my T-cells have "learned" how to protect me against everyday illnesses.
If they could stop my T-cells from learning i'd be more than happy to eat worms.
It could be that you (as I
It could be that you (as I do) take amantadine, which is antiviral.