User talk:Laurel

Using these talk pages

Laurel, if you want to talk to another wiki user about this site, like I'm talking to you here now, go to the list of users (http://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers) and click on "talk" beside that user's name. This will open their "talk" page. Write your message in the blank space on the page and then add 4 tildes (~) which the software will replace with your user name once you hit the "Save page" button at the bottom. The message will then be sent to whatever email address that user signed up with.

HT and autism page

We appear to have an anomaly on the "HT and autism" page which is corrupting the sub heading, "The role of the microbiota in autism". (The word "microbiota" isn't showing.) I'll take a more in-depth look at this in due course, and, if I can't fix it, Rob Chandler should be able to. John (talk) 01:02, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Self-treating with TSO

You appear to have made edits to this page today, but I'm not sure why. Could it have been in error? Or maybe I've done something without realising it??? --John (talk) 16:16, 3 December 2020 (CST)

Yes, it looks like I somehow managed to revert my own recent edits to a revision you made on 11 Nov! No idea how that happened, but it's now sorted. --John (talk) 16:55, 3 December 2020 (CST)

Indentation of comments about citations

Regarding the edit that removed the colon from the start of the bracketed comment immediately below.

• 2015 Nov Trichuris suis ova therapy in relapsing multiple sclerosis is safe but without signals of beneficial effect

(Although the authors of this paper have made comment on a lack of benefit to subjects, the trial was only designed to assess the safety of TSO and not its efficacy. It would not have been capable of demonstrating any significant benefit because it used a treatment period of only 12 weeks, which is inadequate when assessing the efficacy of a helminth. It also used a novel TSO formulation with a pH of 5, when it is known that storage of TSO at a pH above 4 may impede its therapeutic effect in humans. [1])

Source: Helminthic therapy safety:Safety of TSO

Previously, on this site, colons have been used to indent comments about citations, as can be seen in the following example, which uses a double colon.

• 2021 Dec 6 Evolutionary medicine helps explain pandemic dynamics: Predictions regarding clinical impact of COVID-19 borne out

A significant amount of the tragic clinical outcome of the COVID pandemic in high-income countries might arguably have been mitigated had timely investigations been carried out into the effects of the loss of helminths and protists in these countries and into the reintroduction of benign species capable of safely modulating immune function.

Source: Helminthic therapy and COVID-19:The emerging science

If a comment is not indented, it might be assumed by the reader to refer to the citation following the comment rather than the one preceding it.

An additional thought is that, when a comment is indented, it is arguably superfluous to place it in brackets, as was done by the user who originally added the citation about the TSO study.
John (talk) 11:48, 21 December 2021 (CST)

helminthic therapy

The specific population of microorganisms living in a certain part of the body, such as the gut. "Microbiome" refers to all the microorganisms living in and on the body, or the genome of these microorganisms. These two terms are often used interchangeably.

the ova (eggs) of the porcine (pig) whipworm, Trichuris suis

the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

An intestinal worm which grows large enough to be seen with the naked eye when mature but which is microscopic when administered in helminthic therapy. Wikipedia:Helminths

a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

An intestinal worm which grows large enough to be seen with the naked eye when mature but which is microscopic when administered in helminthic therapy. Wikipedia:Helminths