Parasitic Worms heal mans Ulcerative Colitis

A man suffering with Ulcerative Colitis, decided to take matters into his own hands, by ingesting parasitic worms. According to an article I read on CNN.com, the man was having 10-15 bloody bowel movements daily. Soon he was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, and treatments ggiven by his doctor were not working. His doctors gave him the option of being given intravenous rounds of cyclosporine, which would lower the immune system and have the potential to cause cancer later in life. If that treatment failed they would have to remove his entire colon, and would have a colostomy bag permanently. Frustrated and intent on finding a better treatment, he found a study in which some patients with ulcerative colitis showed signs of relief after ingesting trichuris suis worm, a parasite that lives in the intestines of pigs. Doctors in the U.S. would not provide this danger treatment to the patient, so he took off to Thailand, where he found a researcher who extrated the worms from an 11 year old girl's stool.

After ingesting over 1,000 eggs, he found relief within three months. When his bowel movements began to flare up again, he once again ingested eggs, this time extracted from his own stool. The relief soon followed. Later a colonoscopy showed the Ulcerative Colitis was in remission.