Talk:Helminthic therapy

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[edit] Many thanks for the great edits

Thanks for everyone's contributions to the page. i am really new to this and the way it is now is much better that what i did, although I am working on a major revision offline right now with a friend.

You asked about how common the use of helminthic therapy is, citing your allergies. Ovamed has a pretty active discussion board on their web site and Yahoo has two groups titled Helminthic therapy in one form or another. I think the common revulsion for intestinal worms means the therapy is less commonly used than one would expect given how effective it appears. I actually "cured" my asthma and seasonal allergies and mild irritable bowel all with hookworm infection by Autoimmune Therapies.

I also know of one other of their patients who cured, or more correctly, put into remission his exercise induced bronchospasm and is experiencing a great improvement in his psoriasis using their therapy (hookworms).

If you read the boards for Asthma, Crohn's, Colitis, etc., you will find the occasional post from mostly Ovamed patients, they seem to have been around longest. Most report very positive results, except for cost.

thanks again.

FQ1513 05:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guidance/Mentor

Hi, am relatively new to Wikipedia and am looking for someone to guide me in improving this page. I am happy to do the work. I want a mentor so that I can make this page as well-constructed and written, as authoritative and as complete as possible.

I have many more references I could add for instance, but don't want to festoon the page with too many. I am also wondering about the structure and organization of the page. For instance is there a way to located the greatest examples of the wiki, I could then just emulate the way that the page is organized, referenced, etc.

Thanks and sorry for being lame.

FQ1513 (talk) 19:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

The term "Featured article" (FA) is used to describe the best Wiki content, and you can see a list of medical FAs (for example, Treatment of multiple sclerosis) at Wikipedia:Featured_articles#Biology_and_medicine. I would also recommend reading through Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles). I wouldn't worry so much about finding a mentor if I were you -- most people can succeed in this environment as long as they read, understand, and consent to Wikipedia:Five pillars. But if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask, either here or on my talk page. --Arcadian (talk) 16:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] extract secretions as drug

Why can't you just analyze whatever is secreted by the parasite, and make that into a drug in itself? --131.215.166.4 (talk) 09:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like more of a pain in the ass than simply using the actual worms, no? But that is the goal of the current research. CalumetandHecla (talk) 07:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Because the parasite is not secreting something, the effectiveness is caused by the immune system's reaction to the parasite's presence.--HarryHenryGebel (talk) 04:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, that is the hypothesis anyway. The anonymous contributor's question would make an interesting test of the hypothesis discussed here. Rangek (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)