Strongyloides stercorali

[tara]

Strongyloides stercoralis—a nematode

Does your skin itch relentlessly? If so, you may be host to one or more types of skin parasites that are unknown to most physicians.

There are several things to look for on your body to determine if you suffer from skin parasites.

• Stinging or biting
• Non healing lesions or sores
• Fibers or filaments on skin at various non-healing sites where the parasites reside. You can see it with the use of a jeweler’s loop and they are also fluorescent under a ultra violet light.
• Cotton-like balls on your body without any reasonable explanation
• Intense itching skin
• Chronic fatigue
• Brain fog
• Hard nodules under the skin
• Fibromyalgia or joint swelling and pain
• Black specs on the skin and bed sheets
• Hair loss

There is a antibody blood serum test available for Strongyloides stercoralis. A laboratory in Tucker GA, Parasitic Disease Consultants 2177 Flintstone Dr. Suite J, Tucker GA 30084 will perform the test for about $75. The phone number is 770-496-1370.

But don’t hold your breadth; even if it’s diagnosed as Strongyloides, doctors are very unfamiliar with its treatment. Whereas they prescribe antibiotics for bacterial infections like candy, they are totally unfamiliar with the use of wormers and may not prescribe the correct one or the right dosage.

And then again, since these parasites weaken one’s immune functioning, other parasites such as collembola may have joined the fray complicating the treatment. In fact, for both Collembola and Morgellons there is no recognized treatment by the CDC. Fact is that they are just beginning to research Morgellons.

To further complicate matters, usually these parasites are carriers of Lyme, Protozoan and or Toxoplasma gondii (organism often found in cat feces). These organisms further compromise immune functioning complicating the process of any medical treatment.

http://www.skinparasitesebook.com./Parasites.html

[Jo]

Thanks Tara, sounds familiar!

My doc, who is a collegue of Dr Harveys, put "Strongyloides sp" on my consultation notes after looking at a sample from my skin under the microscope.

I'm sure thats why he's concentrated on giving me deworming meds (mebendazole, ivermectin). This week he's put me on piperazine phosphate.

Maybe Strongyloides is the kind of mutant worm from the 1970's that Dr Harvey thinks is responsible for morgs (according to the washington post article), who knows.

cheers Jo xx

[carla]

Maybe Strongyloides is the kind of mutant worm from the 1970's that Dr Harvey thinks is responsible for morgs (according to the washington post article), who knows.

cheers Jo xx

That article has been removed from their site now Jo.I wonder if it was a leak because Harvey said he was not going to say more until he released his paper. ???
x

[Jo]

Weird. Thanks for the info. Wish I'd downloaded a copy now...unless someone pasted it on here. Not sure they did. Jo xx

[hilly]

Jo.. you can buy piperzine phosphate (pripsen) from Boots over the counter.. you don't need a prescription.. You probably know this ! virtually the same as mebendazole.. in fact you can get Pripsen/mebendazole.... I took some when I first got this horrid thing... Milly x

[Jo]

Thanks Milly - got it today through express chemists. Hope you are well?

I've just tried the Washington Post link and its working ok....article still there. Having read it again (page 5 anyway) its got alot of detail actually. Dr Harvey thinks it came from South east Asia in the 1970s.

Washington Post article Jan 2008

[hilly]

Thanks for that Jo.... will read it later.. just off out to an 'Old Tyme Music Hall ' do... must be feeling better !!!!!! Milly xx

[Jo]

If Strongyloides stercorali plays a vital in the mess of morg, then its imperative that the CDC parasitologists know how to test their subjects for them.

My doc said that unless a correct stain is used, (he used methly blue on mine) the nematodes dont show up under a microscope - they are transparent.

This extract below says that they are transparent and v similar to C.elegans:

"The size, transparency and body plan of a free-living S. stercoralis female is so similar to that of a C. elegans hermaphrodite that published techniques for delivery of DNA constructs into C. elegans by gonadal microinjection may be used for this parasite virtually without modification."
http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www...ngyloides.html

If the nematode is tricky to identify, apparently, so is its larvae:

"Strongyloides stercoralis is difficult to diagnose because the parasite load is low and the larval output is irregular. Results of a single stool examination by use of conventional techniques fail to detect larvae in up to 70% of cases. "
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/322707

I hope they are on the ball....
Jo xx

[Jason]

Hi Jo,

My money is the CDC won't be on the ball!

This is a set up they dont care about Morgellons

[tara]

Hmmmmm - MUTANT WORMS – sounds plausible.

Harvey says he may have found not only why Morgellons patients would both scratch and act strange, but also what could be the "genesis of probably most chronic human illnesses," such as autism, obesity, chronic fatigue and bipolar disorder.

It all boils down to this: MUTANT WORMS.

Harvey hypothesizes that a type of nematode, a wormlike parasite that lives in the soil as well as in the guts or lungs of about half the animals on the planet, mutated somewhere in the 1970s in Southeast Asia and jumped from animals to humans. The parasite is easily spread through the fecal-oral route if someone, for example, is out working in the garden, fails to wash his or her hands thoroughly and then eats an orange.

Or it gets into the lungs by inhaling sputum or by kissing. The worm then takes up residence in the colon, Harvey theorizes, and the body's immune system holds it in check.

But when the immune system falters, the worms swarm in the body.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2008011801924