I read something earlier today about worm egg pills has anyone else herd of this as the person that was taking them says its a cure, it just sounds crazy to me,
euck!
i’d have nightmares dreaming of them hatching out in my tum.
my great nephew (15 months old) ate a slug last week and 2 days later chased a huge spider, grabbed it and ate it!
when the kids are singing that “nobody loves me, everybody hates me, i think i’ll go and eat worms” he’ll think “I’ve not tried them yet”
carole x
Carole
The Stormagedden household is roaring with laughter over your post.
Thanks 
Goodness, your baby nephew may need to be checked for a deficiency??? 
S.
Not as daft as it sounds. There’s genuine research going on into this. Parasite infection seems to be protective against MS - but no, it’s not a cure, as you’d still have MS. Parasites presumably have ways of damping down the immune system, so the body’s natural defences won’t kill them. If it’s true that MS is due to an overactive immune system, then anything that safely dampens it down may have potential as a treatment. Personally, I’m not sure I find having worms for the rest of my life an acceptable way forward. It would be ideal if they could find out HOW the worms calm the immune system, and then synthesize it, so you wouldn’t have to harbour the actual worms. Tina
The only thing worm egg pills are likely to be a cure for is a lamentable absence of internal worms. Some problems just ain’t worth fixing!
Alison
I hadn’t heard about these egg pills being offered, but there has always been a lot of talk about roundworms. These are said to be great for MS, as at least our over excited immune system is given something (the worms!) to get its teeth into, instead of it attacking our poor battered nervous system. It all makes sense, and it has a great side effect of making us loose weight (the Victorians were great fans of having a few worms to help control weight), but I just can’t imagine the thought of eating the little wrigglers, and how can we know when we have too many of them???
I had better go for a lie down,
Moira
I can’t see how it can work. If it gives our immune systems something to get its teeth into instead of our nervous systems, surely that’s exactly how a virus should work?
Shouldn’t a virus ‘distract’ our immune systems as well? But we know (from bitter experience) that the opposite happens and a virus sends MS symptoms through the roof.
True they did use them in Victorian times and in 1920’s for weight loss… but apparently there were terrible deaths as the worms grew and then could cause internal damage by wrapping round intestines!
Maybe they were a different type of worm?
Oh dear this is a bit Twilight Zone…
Personally don’t fancy it at all.
Pat x
Thanks for that when I first read it I could not believe what I was reading, well it’s something I would never consider doing
i thought you should eat a fly then a spider and so on lol.
If people knew about the emergence of these eggs, cysts technically, they wouldn’t be quite so keen. An itchy ‘Fundament’ is one of the symptoms of a worm infestation. Remember the story of getting rid of a tape worm with a Mars bar,a hammer and a very very good friend.
Factoid for the day…The emblem of the medical fraternity is a staff and a serpent Erm, actually it’s reckoned to be a small stick and a parasitic worm being wrapped around it over a period of days to remove said worm from the body…Could be worth a million quid that
Have a pleasant day, Wb
The thought of worm pills makes me feel so ill !!! So no thanks !!! X
This ‘parasite’ was discussed on here a few months ago. And l did leave a note at my vets asking him to look into it. lf anyone knows about internal parasites it is a ‘vet’. He has looked at the research that has been done - and said that so far no ‘papers’ have been published - but he thought the idea very interesting.
F
Francis,
All I can say is your ‘vet’ doesn’t know how to ‘use’ google. 2 minutes quick searching and I came up with several papers on helminth or ‘worm’ treatment for MS.
Here is a ‘quick’ selection…
http://msj.sagepub.com/content/17/6/743.short
Cheers,
Belinda