Ivermectin is a parasite drug my LLMD prescribed for my 11 year old and I. Last October, I took a trip out of the country and ended up with a nasty parasite.
Initially I did humaworm which didn't get rid of this thing, went to my acupuncturist..did herbs which has helped and now LLMD is putting us on Ivermectin 5 pills every 5 days for fifteen days then every 3 days for 1 month.
My LLMD indicated that most lyme patients are loaded witht these critters and addressing this issue is helping tremendously.
Posted by jwf (Member # 6292) on :
Hi Snowboarder,
"....loaded with these critters." Could you be more specific about the critters that he is treating with Ivermectin? Thank you.
Blue Skies.......John
Posted by Gabrielle (Member # 5329) on :
Over at the EuroLyme Forum there are a few people who took it. You could ask there.
Gabrielle
Posted by luvs2ride (Member # 8090) on :
I have been treated and am currently treating for parasites (Babs is a parasite) but not with Ivermectin that I know of. It has all been herbal.
I give Ivermectin worm medicine to my horses.
Susan
Posted by snowboarder (Member # 6346) on :
John no one seems to know what kind of parasite I have. Stool culutures have been done that come back negative. When I came back from my trip, I started passing tons of mucus and got extremely ill.
Susan, I've heard of people treating horses with Ivermectin.
Gabrielle, I'll take a look at the Euro lyme board.
Posted by Eight Legs Bad (Member # 13680) on :
Dr Lawrence Klapow has found evidence of a worm new to science in CFS patients, many of whom also had a diagnosis of chronic Lyme. He believes that over 60% of people with "CFS" have this worm.
The worm is not detected in stool samples and he identified it by examining sputum specimens under the microscope after giving a special protocol of inhaled thiabendazole.
He has named the worm Cryptostrongylus pulmoni.
Some European LLMDs are now treating Lyme patients with antihelminthics (anti worm drugs) for a co-infection with this worm.
Elena
Posted by Rianna (Member # 11038) on :
Ivermectin is used for worms as part of an overall Lyme/co-infection/worm protocol if you search here you will see this was used years ago in the USA and a doctor in the UK uses it as part of his protocol.
So a good part of overall treatment protocol but it wont kill Lyme/Bart/Babs only Worms.
Rianna
Posted by Andromeda13 (Member # 8314) on :
These worms, might they be sheltering the lyme bacteria and even the other co-infections like babaesia?
There is a rickettsia type of bug called a Wolbachia that lives inside many of the species of the filarial worms or nematodes. Here's something from pubmed, I just found it quickly, there must be many papers on this subject.
Curr Microbiol. 2000 Aug;41(2):96-100. wsp gene sequences from the Wolbachia of filarial nematodes.
Bazzocchi C, Jamnongluk W, O'Neill SL, Anderson TJ, Genchi C, Bandi C. Istituto di Patologia Generale Veterinaria, Milano, Italy.
Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria are widespread in arthropods and are also present in filarial nematodes. Almost all filarial species so far examined have been found to harbor these endosymbionts.
The sequences of only three genes have been published for nematode Wolbachia (i.e., the genes coding for the proteins FtsZ and catalase and for 16S rRNA). Here we present the sequences of the genes coding for the Wolbachia surface protein (WSP) from the endosymbionts of eight species of filaria.
Complete gene sequences were obtained from the endosymbionts of two different species, Dirofilaria immitis and Brugia malayi.
These sequences allowed us to design general primers for amplification of the wsp gene from the Wolbachia of all filarial species examined.
For these species, partial WSP sequences (about 600 base pairs) were obtained with these primers. Phylogenetic analysis groups these nematode wsp sequences into a coherent cluster.
Within the nematode cluster, wsp-based Wolbachia phylogeny matches a previous phylogeny obtained with ftsZ gene sequences, with a good consistency of the phylogeny of hosts (nematodes) and symbionts (Wolbachia).
In addition, different individuals of the same host species (Dirofilaria immitis and Wuchereria bancrofti) show identical wsp gene sequences.
PMID: 10856373 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
The main point I get from this paper is that every worm they look at in depth seems to have a wolbachia living inside it, and each worm species has its own particular wolbachia. These are nasty things if they are like the other rickettsias.
The worm that was found by Dr Burgdorfer, in the batch of ticks in which he found Borrelia burgdorferi, was called Dipetalonema rugosicauda.
There are so many types of these nematode worms, and there's sometimes more than one species in the same host. Sometimes the names get changed: the scientists notice they have some tiny differences from another species so they give it a new unpronouncable name.
Looks like we lymies are hosts to a lot of parasites and if the worms are protecting the borrelia then we've got to get rid of them first.
Think I'll start researching into Morgellons now; there's something dreadful going on which seems too awful to be real. It's no use burying our heads in the sand and hoping it will go away.