Parasites Hog Your Nutrients and Pollute Your Body

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Parasites Hog Your Nutrients and Pollute Your Body

American Council on Collaborative Medicine, ACCM Health Sense, July 2002

 

Send the Pests Packing with Nature's Counterattack: Herbals and

Cleansing Eradicate Contaminating Invaders.

 

Infestations of parasitic worms in the intestines and other

opportunistic scavengers including nematodes or roundworms (ascarides,

hookworms, pinworms, and threadworms), flukes, tapeworms, and

single-sell protozoa are alarmingly common even in civilized and

affluent countries. (1)(5)(6)(9)

 

There are from 100-500 different varieties to which humans are host.

(1)(5)(6)(9) An estimated 50% of Indian reservations are infected, 55

million children, all elderly are at risk, and in a cross-section of

high-income Americans, 20% tested positive for parasites. (9)(12)

 

Roundworms (Ascaris lumbricoides) are contagious intestinal parasites

shaped like earthworms, easily seen with the naked eye, and create

internal obstructions due to their large size.(1)(6)(9) The most

common of all parasites, over 25% of the population is affected, 4

million in the southeastern U.S. due to soil pollution.(1)(9)(10)

Roundworms migrate to the G.I. tract, blood and lymph, and adult worms

secrete a foreign protein that creates allergic reactions.(1) Larvae

enter from unsanitary conditions or produce grown in infected

soil.(1)(6)(10) Symptoms include blood sugar imbalances, abdominal

pain, eye or lung infections, grinding of teeth at night, gas, asthma,

snoring and weight gain at the full moon.(1)(8) Trichinosis (from

pork) is a roundworm disease affecting 1 billion people, with symptoms

of food poisoning, which can lead to muscle and neurological

damage.(1)(6)(9)

 

Pinworms are the country's most predominant infestation in children

and are small, white threadlike organisms that cause severe itching

(at night when worms migrate from the anus to lay eggs), with insomnia

and restlessness.(1)(6)

 

Tapeworms can live 25 years and measure up to 30 feet.(6)(8)(10) These

ribbon-life platyhelminthes are associated with reduced appetite,

depletion of vitamin B12 and folic acid, dizziness and abdominal

pain.(1)(6)(8) Threadworms from drinking water create a bronchial

cough, diarrhea, gas, and tiny red abrasions that itch.

 

Parasites cause deficits of vitamin A, B6, B12, iron calcium and

magnesium (thus result in malnutrition), block absorption and diminish

immunity, leaving patients susceptible to serious

diseases.(6)(8)(9)(10) Symptoms may appear in all systems of the body,

often seeming unrelated, including flu-like illness, confusion,

nausea, and tiredness.(1)(8)(9) Even stool samples may fail to show

evidence. Parasite infections often go undetected for years due to

delayed onset of symptoms. Most exhibit diarrhea, although

constipation is common due to nests. Parasites occur in children more

than adults and are behind many other disorders (especially in the

colon).(6)(8)(9)(12) All members of a family should be checked if one

has experienced an infection, including pets.(6)(7)

 

Predisposing factors include malnutrition, a compromised immune

system, and chemical or metal poisoning, and pre-existing viral,

fungal or bacterial infections (especially Candida, AIDS and chronic

fatigue).(1)(12) Worms thrive on sugar, thus carbohydrate intake

should be reduced. Parasitologists say scavenger organisms out-number

any other species and also take the form of fungi, viruses, bacteria

and certain insects. Treating the patient with multi-faceted natural

therapies is the most effective.

 

Parasites can be present in any disease state and experts contend they

are found in every cancer patient, notably Fasciolopsis buskii, a

flatworm also common to HIV, Alzeheimer's, Crohn's and endometriosis.

It resides in the intestinal tract and can produce 1,000 eggs per

bowel movement over a period of years. Over 600 million people are

infected with the blood fluke, Schistosoma that resides in ponds.

Flukes are especially prolific in the presence of toxic solvents

(mutagens), one of which is wood alcohol found in commercial beverages

(the end product of aspartame), and can lead to diabetes. Patients

with environmental allergies typically have sheep liver flukes in the

bile ducts causing liver contamination, often the result of mercury

poisoning from dental amalgam. Sheep liver and pancreatic flukes are

causative in Crohn's disease.

 

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