Questions About Intestinal Parasites Treatment

Ruth asks…
I have reason to believe I may have intestinal parasites, but…?
I do not have health insurance or a well paying job.
Does anyone have the slightest clue how much treatment and testing might cost?
I’m talking about any kind of intestinal parasites.
A colon cleanse will not do the job.
Many of these parasites burrow deep into tissue.
I was on my death bed a few years ago from them, luckily treatment saved me, but this was when I had health insurance.
Wow. Colon cleanse. Hah.
I am vomiting blood.
I am not going to do ANY colon cleanse.
I am getting weaker by the day and not about to flush more essential nutrients and liquids from my body.
But thanks for the testing info.
All I would like to know is a general price range for blood tests and stool tests.
I am in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.

Ellen answers:
You are right, a colon cleanse will not get rid of those bad guys. Parasites infect over 60% of Americans and that number is estimated to be low. There is a way to get rid of them, but you will also need to get rid of the eggs by making them hatch.
Intestinal parasites can be gotten rid of by using herbs and a castor oil pack to cause the eggs to hatch. The problem is that liver flukes and other parasites can and do communicate with each other in the body through quorum sensing and to truly address this issue, you need to have a practitioner that understands how to do QRA testing. This method of testing will give you the exact mount of herbs you need to take, not too little and not too much and can also find where the parasites are in your body.
Many parasites do not show up on typical lab tests and are overlooked many times and people are treated by doctors for symptoms and never get well, just live with “MAKE BELIEVE HEALTH” from drugs.
The cost is NOT expensive, in relative terms. Most likely for less than $100 you can solve this problem. But, the real issue is the quantity to take. If you take too little of the herbs, all you do is make the bad guys mad and they produce more eggs and get vicious. Many times what happens is the herbs make them mad and the bad guys crawl into the stomach and have been known to crawl up the esophagus, etc.
But if you can determine the exact amount that is correct, you can get rid of them in about a month, but it is recommended that you continue the herbs for about 4 months to completely clear all of them.
Then you can do a maintenance amount to keep them out of your body.
Where do you live? I can help you find a practitioner that knows QRA that can test you and it is not a difficult test. I can also direct you to where you can get the herbs that will definitely get rid of them for you. The alternative is to guess the amount and hope you get it right.
Good luck to you

Robert asks…
How serious are intestinal parasites?
I’m pretty sure I have a parasite and I believe it is hookworm. I think I go it from food I ate on Christmas and I wont be able to go to the doctor’s until the 3rd or the 4th.
I heard it can cause intestinal blockage (I assume that means constipation) and that they can get quite long so I’m not sure if those take awhile to develop or if I should seek help soon. I don’t think 3 days would kill me but im not sure what to expect. I don’t really feel any pain anywhere although Ive been having alot of false alarms (just gas coming out). and a difference in fecal matter in that it comes in smaller pieces instead of logs (sorry for the vulgarity I don’t know how to describe that) and obviously there being a white worm in it. If it is any indication to how far along the worms are usually about 1/2 inch long.
What can I expect with treatment and all that? I’m 15 years old and neither of my parents knows that much about parasites but I did make sure to tell them of it.
I have not seen anything in the skin either.

Ellen answers:
You can only get hook worms if you run around outside in the moist grass without shoes on. The worm hooks itself onto the sole of your foot and works its way inside.
I believe my daughter also has parasites, for over a year now. She has numerous stomache aches daily. I brought her to the doctor when she first started having pains but he did not seem too concern. I finally went to see another doctor because she has had diarea for no reason at all and she has missed a lot of school. The new doctor thinks she may have pick up a parasite while we were on vacation, either in the Maritimes or from the Gulf of Mexico (the water was really nasty there, and it was during Huricain Katrina, who knows what was lurking in that water). We had the stool sample done and ultra sound, just need to go back and get the results. In the meantime I have talked to other parents. One parent is actually having the same problem. One of her twins was loosing weight even though she was eating like a horse. The doctor prescribed some medicine and she pooped out 6″ tapeworm. Since this did not solve the proplem the doctor thinks there is another one in there but bigger (GREAT, now I think my child has bibits(french for bugs) living inside her). I did my research and they suggest code liver oil may help (you can put it in their juice or on their salad). There are loads of other natural remedies, but I have yet to learn how effective they are. I just want to give her one pill and that’s that.
If your anal hole is itchy during the night, it could be pinworms. They only come out at night. I read that you can put a packing tape over that area while you sleep and in the morning examine it for pinworms. They are long white hair like worms.
If you have pets and they have worms, you can get them too. If your pet is dragging its but across the floor, it has worms.
You can also try fasting and detoxing your body. Drink plenty of water with lemons or grapefruit juice for two days. We should drink this everyday anyway and eat plenty of raw veggies and fruit.
Hope this helps. I am still researching this.
Foot note; We all have parasites living on us and in us. There are good parasite and their are bad parasites. Just like in our garden there are good bugs (worms, ladybugs) and there are bad bugs (earwigs, slugs).

Daniel asks…
How do you keep a kitten from pooping on the floor
My wife and I found a stray about five months ago. She gave birth to 4 beautiful kittens about 4 months ago. One of the kittens, however, has been touch and go with the litter box, using it about half the time. We took him to the vet and discovered that he had round worms and an intestinal parasite. We are hoping that after the treatment for the parasites is done that maybe he’ll use the box. Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone experienced similar behavioral problems.
PS – He is an otherwise wonderful, loving, sweet little cat.

Ellen answers:
The next time kitten goes on the floor; pick up the mess she made and put it in the kitty litter box and put kitten in with it. Show it to her ,and take one of her paws and scratch in the litter to cover it. This should only take a few times before she catches on. Don’t move the location of the litter box. I kitty litter trained a bunny this way.

Maria asks…
Is it natural to still have diarrhea even after you’ve finished the prescribed treatment for amoebiasis?
I’ve taken & just finished the entire course of prescribed secnidazole, but am still passing loose mucoid stools at a frequency of 6-7x a day, but in small to moderate amounts. I’m well hydrated, though. I’m just wondering if I am already considered a treatment failure, or the damage to my intestinal walls are just so severe that it takes a while for the diarrhea to resolve even if the parasites are already killed.

Ellen answers:
It would be a good idea to have the docs look at a stool sample – its the only way to know for certain if the drugs actually worked. The drug you are taking itself often causes all sorts of gastrointestinal problems.

Sandy asks…
Do you agree that veterinarian fees are getting out of hand?
I used to take my kitty to an old country veterinarian. He’d just listened to the lungs, heart and palpate the abdomen. Everything okay – $30. Now that he’s retired, I’ve started going to this new clinic with young vets. Take kitty in, wait 2 hours in reception area, taken in to exam room. Wait another hour. Vet comes in. Weights kitty, listens to heart and lungs, palpates abdomen, checks ears, checks for flea dirt, looks in mouth and under tail, takes rectal swab to check for parasites and draws blood for more tests. Now kitty, who seems perfectly healthy to I’m told needs: flea repellent, antibiotic solution for scratch on ear, some kind of medicine to put in ears for infection/mites, medicine for intestinal parasites, vaccinations for rabies, leukemia, distemper and feline enteritis. Gets teeth cleaned and claws trimmed. Bill now over $200. Is this the norm now or am I getting soaked by over-excessive and unnecessary tests and treatments?

Ellen answers:
It’s the norm and no, you’re not getting “soaked”.
Do you realize that vets go to vet school just like human docs go to medical school? This is a specialized, professional field, not unskilled labor. Do you realize that it’s harder to get into vet school than it is to get into medical school?
Try going to a human doctor and get the similar amount of work done on your yourself that you just had mentioned in your question. I guarantee you it will be way more than $200: I just went to the doc for a basic exam plus blood drawn for 2 different tests and the bill was nearly $500 to my insurance company.
This person is dealing with your cat’s health – this should be a serious, important matter for you. You do realize that in life, you get what you pay for and the cheap always because expensive?
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