Helminthic therapy documentary resources

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The following documents are hosted on this site. Most of them are not readily available elsewhere.

Documents

• A Survey of Self-Treatment with Helminths: Practices and Outcomes (Used in the Cheng, et al, socio-medical study of 2015.)

• Alternative therapeutic approaches for Crohn's disease

• Alternative therapeutic approaches for multiple sclerosis

• Alternative therapeutic approaches for ulcerative colitis

• Alternative therapeutic approaches to the treatment of periodontitis (Includes links to information about the risks of root canals and dental implants.)

• CDC Hookworm Diagnostic Algorithm (Shows "no treatment" recommended for light hookworm infections.)

• Global Distribution of Autoimmune Disorders and Helminths

• Guide to Shipping Biological Materials

• Medical researchers abandon therapy with living worms

• Insomnia and sleep improvement information

• Support Group Guidelines

Articles

• A New Approach to Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease - Ovamed (now Tanawisa)

• An Interview with William Parker - Donna Beales

• Can parasites be good for you? - David Pritchard

• Could these parasitic worms be good for your health? - Cate Montana

• Herbert Smith and Helminthic Therapy - John Scott

• Lawrence Johnson and the chiggers - Moises Velasquez-Manoff

• Total Food Allergy/Intolerance - John Scott

• Why a parasite cleanse can make you worse - Karen Vaughan

Letters

• A response to "Could Worms Cure Coeliac Disease? With Immunology Researcher Dr Paul Giacomin" - John Scott

• Autoimmune disease and parasitic infections in Nigerians - B M Greenwood

• IgE, parasites, and allergy - J A Turton

• Not infection with parasitic worms, but rather colonization with therapeutic helminths - William Parker

• Patients self-treat with parasitic worms - Stephen Flowers and Michael Hopkins

• Symptomatic hypereosinophilia associated with Necator americanus self-inoculation - Penglase et al

Papers

• A prescription for clinical immunology: the pills are available and ready for testing. A review - Parker et al

• Association Between Parasite Infection and Immune Responses in Multiple Sclerosis - Correale and Farez

• Do helminth parasites protect against atopy and allergic disease? - Flohr et al

• Evolution of the hygiene hypothesis into biota alteration theory: What are the paradigms and where are the clinical applications? - Villeneuve et al

• Gut Buddies - Multispecies Studies and the Microbiome - Lorimer

• Helminth Therapy - From the Parasite Perspective - Sobotková et al

• Hookworms Make Us Human - The Microbiome, Eco-immunology, and a Probiotic Turn in Western Health Care - Lorimer

• Intestinal worms eating neuropsychiatric disorders? Apparently so - Kou and Parker

• Mucosal and systemic immune modulation by Trichuris trichiura in a self-infected individual - Dige et al

• Overcoming Evolutionary Mismatch by Self-Treatment with Helminths: Current Practices and Experience - Cheng et al

• Parasites, ghosts and mutualists - a relational geography of microbes for global health - Lorimer

• Policy and regulations in light of the human body as a ‘superorganism’ containing multiple, intertwined symbiotic relationships - Bono-Lunn et al

• Potential Transmission of Pathogens Between Human Hosts by the Hookworm, Necator Americanus - Calvert

• Practices and outcomes of self-treatment with helminths based on physicians observations - Liu et al

• Production of Hymenolepis diminuta in the Laboratory- An Old Research Tool with New Clinical Applications - Zhang et al

• Quantitative investigation of the crowding effect of Hymenolepis diminuta in Rattus norvegicus (Lab exercise in HDC culture) - Brant and Hanelt

• Reconstitution of the human biome as the most reasonable solution for epidemics of allergic and autoimmune diseases - Bilbo et al

• Scary and nasty beasts: Self-reported fear and disgust of common phobic animals - Polák et al

• Short Report: An Agar Plate Method for Culturing Hookworm Larvae: Analysis of Growth Kinetics and Infectivity Compared With Standard Coproculture Techniques - Reiss et al

• Socio-medical studies of individuals self-treating with helminths provide insight into clinical trial design for assessing helminth therapy - Venkatakrishnan et al

• Treatment of Refractory Chronic Migraine with Worm Eggs: A Therapy Rooted in Evolution - Robbins and Alley

The reintroduction to the digestive tract of a controlled number of specially domesticated, mutualistic helminths (intestinal worms) in the form of microscopic eggs or larvae to reconstitute a depleted biome to treat or prevent chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease and other immune-related disorders, including allergy.

A helminth that lives in the small intestine. Necator americanus (NA) is the only hookworm species used in helminthic therapy. Its microscopic larvae are applied periodically to the skin.