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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (20)11/16/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: biowa  Read Replies (1) of 7143
 
Maybe we should still use leeches...

Researchers at the University of Iowa found that purposely infecting inflammatory bowel disease patients with helminthic worms improved their symptoms. In fact, just one dose of the eggs of these normal human parasites in a sports drink caused the disease to go into remission in five of the six patients tested.

Researchers were intrigued by the fact that inflammatory bowel disease, along with the related Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, has been on the rise since "improved" sanitation in the early part of this century began to eliminate the worms from the normal human gut flora in more developed nations.

Apparently larger clinical trials are under way.

Pure speculation, but what if the immune modulation that apparently causes this effect is systemic? Since many of the same agents that treat Crohn's disease are also used for RA, wouldn't it be scary if this also worked there. (Food for the ISIP, IMNX, CNTO and AMGN shorts <g>)

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