Comments on: Worms and allergies: A smoking gun?

By: camille

camille — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:37:20 +0000

This is a really interesting post about a parasite’s ability to contribute to a human’s immune system. If this research will be further proven correct, then I guess these worms shouldn’t be called “parasites” anymore.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:37:23 +0000

We cannot live without bacterias and many other microscopic beings. Trying to live in a completely sterile environment as a helthy individual is a big mistake. If you don’t give the opportunity to your body to fight against harmful bacterias and such, it will become defenseless, and you will get infected as soon as you come close to a harmful bacteria, virus etc…

Many moms commit this mistake with their young children.

By: hit song

hit song — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:20:16 +0000

Interesting article indeed. It really shows the real nature and danger worms and allergies can cause. Thanks for the article. Cheers

By: Dr disease forum

Dr disease forum — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:58 +0000

Very nice article! Very imperssing!

By: Diet Tablets

Diet Tablets — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:24:49 +0000

interesting article. and i agree with Dino. It is an effect of living in a very sterile environment like most of us do nowadays. We lose immunity against conditions that our past generations have. Which is in one way good.

By: mogs

mogs — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:34:01 +0000

Hmm, what does this say however about the growing increase in allergies and asthma diagnososis? I feel like it would be a negative correlation not a positive one if worms were involved.

By: Dino Delellis

Dino Delellis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:22:19 +0000

Very interesting article , I think this is an effect of living in a very sterile environment like most of us do nowadays. We lose immunity against conditions that our past generations have.

This could be an accidental ( or maybe not ) case of symbiosis , we provide a home for these worms and in turn they protect us from allergies by the toxins we secrete.

Maybe in our quest of achieving a germ/virus/micro organism free society we have weakened our immune system that has acquired it’s strength from generations of exposure and evolution.

By: stop smoking in one hour

stop smoking in one hour — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:04:53 +0000

There are allergy shots for being allergic to enviroment that slowly gets one get immuned to what they are allergic to. There aren’t any for foods however, for the way allergies work, when the enviroment allergies go down the foods do also. Its helped me so much being allergic to celery, soy, and mangos- being allergic is still a problem, but not a deathly risk as much as before.

By: food intolerance

food intolerance — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:36:42 +0000

I have heard about this theory a long time ago and it made perfect sense to me. As a child I used to get sick all the time, but as I grew I became very resistant to common sicknesses… Nowadays, everyone around me is allergic to something, food, pollen, animals … Indeed it seems things are getting worse.

Anyways, this new study is interesting, what does this mean for the futur ? will we need to expose our kids to dirt more so we can catch these worms, or will they come up with some sort of drug for ES-62 …

By: A.C. ( on Rare Diseases )

A.C. ( on Rare Diseases ) — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:46:37 +0000

I’m not an expert in parasitic or rare diseases, but I remember seeing enlarged images of microscopic creatures that exist on our body. Among them are the worms that are in our intestine and throughout our skin/hair. We’re literal petri dishes! It’s very difficult probably to know exactly what has caused an uptick in allergies, but I think I agree with this hypothesis – There simply has to be a reason, and it’s a very valid explanation for the anomalous changes.