Parasitic Diseases Lectures #25: Hookworms

Dickson and Daniel discuss the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.

[@susanyoung8104]

Thank you! Incredible coverage. Re: Civil War: they also suffered mites, lice, ticks, scarlet fever, mosquitoes malaria, leeches, and who knows what-all parasites. And these things are STILL a menace today! Especially after floods and hurricanes. But US doctors are in denial. 😢🤬🙈

[@davewilliams5208]

I live in the uk and tiks are really prevalent in the forest in the south/southeast and carry lyme disease

[@KathyHussey063]

+Susan Young Why don't doctors routinely test patients for parasites, in blood work and or stool samples? Probably 30% to 50% (if not more) of people would benefit greatly by first clearing out their digestive tracts thoroughly, testing the contents & treating anything found. It seems like it'd be damn near impossible to figure out what's wrong with 'grandma', if she hasn't ever had her colon cleared out & she's over 70 years old. Eliminating the stasis of the digestive tract, releasing any toxins being held in, (due to most of us not taking in enough water or healthy fiber in our diets, so that nothing moves through the body as quickly or as efficiently as it should) would likely fix the fatigue, malaise, weakness, brain fog, aching joints & muscles, stiffness and many digestive symptoms while sometimes even alleviating symptoms of depression and anxiety. Getting rid of all the 'Hangers On" that are routinely hitchhiking & hijacking our bodies should be the first thing doctors advise, but I've never had one even bring it up. Whether a sickness is caused by bacteria, viruses, the common cold, autoimmune illnesses, pneumonia or from Crohn's disease to cancer, I imagine every single patient would benefit immensely from just clearing out their digestive tract, while doctors run tests on samples, then treat any resistant boarders in their bodies. Why don't they tell people the truth that garbage in = garbage out when it comes to nurturing the one body we have? At some point the medical profession stopped looking at a patient as a whole person or organism, with all our organs interlinked & interdependent on each other part's health. They stopped looking after a patient's HEALTH, and they began almost solely managing the different chronic symptoms which NEVER GO AWAY and keep people chained to a doctor's hip the rest of their life for refills....(but no one is getting any better except those who figure out the more natural ways to do what it takes to BE HEALTHIER. )

[@gabriellegilbert5239]

@@KathyHussey063 about a century ago it was common practice to worm yourself & family once or twice a year at same time with the animals raised. Now , we look around & see.... No worming, Way more disease. And quite fascinating that Ivermectin treats COVID, yeah?? 🤔 And even yet, still we can have a basically unchanged conversation with the majority of society, be personal &/or professional settings. 🐞

[@KathyHussey063]

@@gabriellegilbert5239 It may be the only reason ivernectin seems to help some people to fight covid19 (not really "treat it", itself, specifically but why it helps those patients outcomes) is that killing off the few parasites ivermectin does target may help a person's body, their intestinal tract, stomach avids, etc.to do what those parts are meant to do, so getting rid of a heavy load of internal parasutes should boost a damaged immune system, so yes then they could fight off viruses, bacteria any infestations easier. Parasites thrive better in a person with a weakened immune system. If your body can't fight parasites as well as it normally should when the body is working right, then it has a hard time keeping them from settling in and gaining a foothold, It lays perfect ground for parasites to invade.. A body out of balance enables parasites to stay and flourish, so Ivermectin could seem to be what is helping a patient alot, IF that patient was harboring the parasite/s Ivemectin will kill. But, it only kills a select few so it's not a 'cure all' or it would not do nearly enough to address the loads of different ones in us all the time. The thing is to keep them from getting out of control. Unfortunately many things we do these days encourage just thatto happen in us. Anti inflammatory meds (steroidal meds like cortizone, prednisone, depo medrol injectionsetc.) that millions of arthritis patients, cancer patients, Crohn's disease, Lupus & patients with many other diseases too, are prescribed these reguarly and they allow parasites to flourish. Nsaids too allow critters to multiply faster than they'd otherwise be able to in a healthy body.It's because they bring down inflammatory processes in the body which help alot to keep parasites in check. Gardening without gloves on, barefoot, gives them access to your body through contaminated soil, where parasites may long lie awaiting a victim, you can not see most of them withthe naked eye. Contact with others whether by contaminated water or sewage sources, farm animals, pets & poorly cooked foods, some shellfish...there are so many ways they have to invade the body so.. If anyone is very sick in any way, it seems to me it'd be wise to get your blood & stool analyzed to find out what parasites or infections you may have so you can take the right meds or other more holistic methods, to kill those off. A colon cleansing treatment, or several of them, also would be wise. To help the body be as strong as it is, on it's own. Many people would probably ot even need a doctor or pescriptions IF those things weredone annually. I think this is why it's not pursued as it should be these days. They taught the physicians of this last century to treat our SYMPTOMS, not us as a whole human being. They'll rarely even look to find out why you have excess acid in your stomach everytime you eat, nope, just take these antacids tablets every single meal all your life, when you may just need to clear your system out so it CAN work Surgeries are pushed far more now than in the times before penicillin came along, because the high risk of infections, surgical complications & death greatly reduced how quick they were to cut patients open. Surgery too introduces a host of possible problems & complications, germs into our bodies that should not be in there. Doctors make a ton more money by doing surgeries & havng patients IN the hospitali, where they MIGHT see yu for 3 minutes a day, charge thousands of dollars because you are in there. What we don't know is killing us.

[@psfgtech]

CDC in denial

[@blissbrain]

Good to know that the 6 or 7 foot hole is needed for the outhouse, as well as the 4 foot radius to prevent stepping on the soil there with the covering, and also the filter on the side for updrafting air. These design specs are good to know just in case.

[@mkgreen9750]

How many undetected hosts in the USA? No doctor I have ever been to so far has approached this issue even though it is so obvious a cause to ulcerative colitis.

[@leannshort2211]

No doubt the answer to a TON of diseases and most definitely C!!! But that’s why there’s no cure…. $$$$ 🤑😒🤬

[@davewilliams5208]

Very interesting the connection between hookworm and the recovery of the south post civil war

[@KathyHussey063]

+Dave Williams Hi. this article covers that subject very well. I found it a few years ago & it's very interesting. I'd never heard about it although I've lived in Tennessee since I was 13 (so nearly 47 years, now.) www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/ (If clicking on that web address doesn't go to the article, you can type it into the Google search bar, at the top of your screen or whatever you use for a search engine & it will go to it.)

[@michaelwormwood57]

if you 7f8 gig 7f7f7f7ffffh7fa7fa7ff7f8gufufffffffsuf in 8iv 7g99aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafccxhg7777ug7g7g7g7g77yju7y7y777777ya77se

[@MemeCrew5690]

Thank you so much sir for your wonderful video! I am studying microbiology and by accident, discovered your channel! How inspiring! I highly appreciate your work!

[@DRdukedexster]

What do you think of parasite zappers?

[@theresageiger584]

Doctors don't help anyone

[@nananunn8795]

No doctors dont do nothing!!!

[@littlequeen22]

Theresa Geiger my vet told me to contact him if I think I have gotten from my infected puppy, and to NOT go to an MD.

[@nananunn8795]

If it helps any a person from u tube said 2 eat pumkin seeds air dryed only no salt grind them up put them in smothies or food im going 2 try

[@theresageiger584]

They are the devil

[@MT-kj2zv]

Methylene Blue works! I have tried everything and all I would get is drug resistance. This blue dye passes the blood brain barrier and can get through there protective measures.

[@lisanash6487]

That’s what I’m taking to!

[@NIN_THUG]

Menbendazole crosses the bbb

[@leannshort2211]

Any side effects from it or severe die off symptoms?? Taking Milk Thistle and diatomaceous earth helps with this correct?? How are you now?

[@mssavedin92]

makes sense that rockerfeller wanted them to get better, he needed the slaves.

[@dashagudym3938]

Wow! The most informative stuff I’ve come across so far.

[@Nate19O]

This is a great lecture, anecdotes and information delivered with care. Too many lectures are just a stream of information with no context, yours are great.

[@AceofDlamonds]

I love his presentations.

[@yakopro49]

I can explain in words how much I appreciate you two genius doctors ❤❤ God Bless. Keep up the fantastic educational videos

[@janetdurham6445]

How informative I just came across this it's great it's good to know how these things got started and what can be done to cure them

[@Ilovenature872]

Everything from africa. These people. Always blaming africa

[@blissbrain]

This method of teaching surpasses any other. I've studied parasites for decades and now I can finally start remembering which is which, because the rich historical context brings it to life. THANK YOU SO MUCH, FASCINATING INFORMATION. I wonder if the hot sun had anything to do with 'southern laziness? Or maybe the plantation owners got spoiled from previous dependance on slaves who miraculously did all the work from raising kids, cleaning house, cooking, and working in the fields. Add that to hookworms and you have a magic formula for triple laziness.

[@karenishness1]

I live in the south and they are bottom feeders. Everything that crawls, slithers, or swims gets eaten. Armadillos too, which are said to cause leprosy. Few vegans in the south- it's a proud tradition and they're still wormy.

[@knyckname3295]

You sound like a whole fool...a sick and diseased vegan giving health advice..

[@karenishness1]

@@knyckname3295 And are you a half fool- knowing nothing, full of hatred and caustic thoughts, killing themselves with their tradition of kill and eat everything that moves?

[@419buckeye7]

Nothing scares me more than parasites but I must know all about them

[@mj-je7el]

Why are you saying that just one pill 400 helps?? Its not that simple with difficult infections.

[@leannshort2211]

This is true!! For difficult infections that have plagued us for sometimes DECADES, we need more than one anti parasitic med and multiple days. Then it usually needs to be repeated weeks later, sometimes multiple times until tests come back clear. To be on the safe side I would then continue to take a dewormer periodically to prevent it from happening again!! I will be discussing all of this with my Naturopath when I see him in a week!

[@lindanorris2455]

NEVER GO BAREFOOT IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

[@themysticmuse1111]

I'm in WV. I do. DID.

[@betobermudez4075]

Amazing lecture, thank you!

[@themysticmuse1111]

Dear god, your channel is gonna give me the ptsd. 🙈 But that being said, it is invaluable info,and presented well. So thank you. I'm learning stuff. Kinda wish it wasn't this stuff I was learning so much about,but...😅 Parasites are so gross, freaky, violating. The illness they cause is no joke. Knowledge is power. Taint goin' through this again. Ever. Lol Its as fascinating as it is nasty and freaky. The life of parasites. The history. So many, and they are SO WEIRD. Life is weird, Nature is weird. But beautiful,too. And also freaky sometimes. Parasites are as freaky as it gets. To me,anyway. Parasites.👀 Wth Yep. Thinking for sure, ptsd. 😕 I absolutely do feel traumatized. No more barefoot for me. 😅 moments you catch yourself... Tmi, on youtube. But forealio, this being human thing is crazy sometimes. PARASITES! 👀🙈

[@themysticmuse1111]

*update: wasn't parasites. Stress. 😆

[@wilting_hyacinth13]

Discover of the day thank you for this explicit explanation

[@susanyoung8104]

Thank you! Question: would the hookworms anticoagulants, at some point, cause a rise in the persons platelet count? ...Anyone, anyone? And, would they also cause a gradual drop in the amount of protein in the serum?

[@cynthiabeanez9191]

I would think it would lower the platelet count.

[@cghrios783]

Did you ask because you had this? Docs are in denial and I just treated myself. I saw all kinds of things in the stool but no doc wanted to test me. It’s very very frustrating. In my case looking for a new pup I believe gave me the infection.

[@tiagomarques715]

The lack of iron because of the sucking of blood by the worm causes elevated platelets Is a classic feature of iron deficiency anemia

[@leannshort2211]

@@tiagomarques715 Very interesting!! Thank you for this!

[@leannshort2211]

Thank you! What a very informative video! Yay for toilets but there are still nasty ass people out there who don’t wash their hands after taking a shit! 🤮🤬 No doubt it’s still being spread rampantly. Just this morning I saw a nasty diaper left in a parking lot. People are STILL so unsanitary and disgusting! I grew up in the south and now I live in NH. Thank God I will be getting tested for parasites in about a week from my Naturopath! I had an ova and parasite test over 2 years ago by my pcp, or what I like to call pharmaceutical agent, and of course it came back negative… 😒 The reason is because a lot of these parasites and/or their eggs are NOT discovered from just one stool test! There need to usually be 3 in a row or more sometimes to catch these buggers! If little O’l me can find out this information, theres no reason or excuse that providers can’t or don’t already know this. I swear it’s purposeful. Maybe not by them, but the ones in charge of teaching them. Colleges and even beyond that, Big P! I believe that a lot of disease and even C could be prevented and treated quite successfully if more people were tested PROPERLY for parasites. Another reason why they deny that parasites or at least certain parasites are in fact here in America and NOT just other countries. I’ve had some odd, nuisance like symptoms for years, but have been suffering for over 3 years from debilitating systemic symptoms after getting Covid in April 2021. It’s now Aug 2024. Over the course of 3 years I have seen so many “Dr’s/specialists” and had tons of bloodwork, stool tests for ova and parasite, salmonella and pin worms. Nothing ever came of it. Had an Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, PFT,(pulmonary function test), Hematology/Oncology because I was afraid I had cancer because of the constant, chronic and debilitating systemic inflammation. Asked for testing for Aspergillosis, Tuberculosis, GERD. I told the pulmonologist I thought I had Eosinophilic asthma. He said that’s not what I had without even testing me! 🤬 I made my pharmaceutical agent test my Eosinophils because I had done the research on my symptoms. In fact my Eosinophils came back high. A year later they were even higher! I also have a high igE which the two together are indicative of a parasitic infection! When bringing this information back to the pulmonologist he only wanted to put me on a very expensive Big P injectable medication. I refused! I went to a Naturopath who diagnosed me with chronic Lyme and co-infections and EBV. Wanted to take advantage of me and tried to get me to do a $5,000 Lyme treatment. 😒 I knew my gut was telling me something more! I told my husband it feels like I just have a constant Cytokine storm raging in my body! No wonder!! 😩 I changed my diet and lifestyle. No processed junk,( I love cooking and baking from scratch anyway). Whole, organic foods mostly. I make all of my cleaning and hygiene products now to cut down on toxic load. I had a biological dentist remove a root canal tooth, and then referred me to her colleague in Germany to remove the other two I had, plus open up and clean out wisdom teeth cavitation sites from where I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled over 20 years ago. So I traveled to Germany for that. Not that I regret doing that because that also leads to a burden of bacteria and infection ,(Lyme and so forth) in the body. We have probably spent close to 100 k over the past 3 years trying to figure out what’s wrong with me!! 🤬 A lot of physical, emotional and psychological torment too. And to find out that it could’ve all been or mostly because of a parasite and my misery could’ve been avoided by better testing from the medical field is absolutely infuriating and disheartening! I swear they don’t want us to know that parasitic infection is more prevalent in the US for a reason!!! $$$ 🤬 Gee, maybe a cure for C would miraculously be made if we had a deworming program in America like they have in other countries! But then their money makers would come to an end, so I sincerely doubt it! Just a thought 🤔👌🏻

[@victoriagossani8523]

Thank you for all this lectures. I send a bottle in the ocean to have an answer to my concern. In 2007 I was in India for 1 year, and in the early begining of my stay probably by mistake I drunk contaminated water. My symptoms was: anorexia with some days normal appetite, rapid loose of weight, general weakness, inconfort on the bowel, no diarrhea but the stools was like inflate by air and so no formed stools and no fever. I was certain it was parasitic infection but the doctors I visit the first 2 months of symptoms was not agree with my assumptions. I ended to visit an Ayurvedic doctor who diagnosed parasitic infection but he doesn't says me what was those parasites. After on month of Ayurvedic treatment without any improvement, I quit the treatment. I spend on month more and more weak, then I visit a reputed doctor who's also diagnosed a parasitic infection but unfortunately I havent understood the name he was giving for the parasites (I'm French and at the time was less fluente in English). When he've make the palpation of my belly, he says me: do you ear this noise of walking in the snow, it's typical of... (the name of the parasites that I haven't understood). The treatment was (it's hand writting, I can't read well and I don't remeber the brands) : take first Rablet-D 7 days, after those 7 days Oflin or Ofliw T2 5 days, after those 5 days Neutradin B for 5 days, Zentel 1 night repeat after 6 weeks, and reciepe to make electrolytes. He warned me that it would be a "horse's treatment" (meaning strong) and that will weak me more, and it was, but after the sixth week all the symptoms have ended. Later and for years, I was notice that in hot weather my stomach was upset and my appetite low. And after approximatly 10 years this have ended. So, 17 years later, after a lots of researchs, I'm still looking for an answer: what was "my" parasites? If anybody have an answer it would be great. Thank you for those who've read me.

[@cecillekinnear4585]

Very common in the coastal areas of South Africa. I was interested in your reference to dew point and how wearing good quality shoes help. Unfortunately sanitation and the treatment of waste has all but collapsed. Sadly nowadays nobody talks about this infection even though it surely must be endemic.

[@ChrisGibson-c9o]

I just watched....I'm not any kind of a person with education to create theories, however....anticoagulant would need to not only be the mouth like a leach because if you break one of these worms they will segment and turn into 2 worms. When that happens they would need anticoagulant where the segment happens correct?

[@birgittelvstrm5759]

Thank you so much for making these program. I am from Denmark 🇩🇰. For 5 1/2 year I have been bitten

[@Findmylimit]

The serpent in the scripture hehe All the comments about 95% are fake!

[@Terri330]

How you get them out of your brain?

[@midgardgaming8484]

Super interesting thanks for this

[@LauraSerdar-uo5kb]

Is there test you can fo to see if you have them

[@lindanorris2455]

SO FAR NO DR. OR MEDICAL PERSON THAT I HAVE SEEN OR SHOWN THE FOOT BUBBLES TO HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT HOOK WORM EVEN IS?

[@g-unit67]

Foot bubbles!!! I have them too!

[@KathyHussey063]

I really appreciated you taking your time to go into this topic as much as you did and not just rapidly shooting a succession of facts at us, too fast to soak in (as a lot of these kind of videos do) but talking to your audience in a conversational tone. It helped how you taught about the causes & symptoms of the hookworm and their similarities to other helminths. Thank you for such a detailed, information packed discussion of the history of the hookworm and how they discovered them and then mapped out it's life cycle. I always wondered when, why and how mankind started building outhouses and privy's which led to today's modern sanitation and the toilet's use.

[@nananunn8795]

Iv taken 2 doses of abendzole also 2 doses of. Pyratel 2 doses an have cleaned like crazy so please help!

[@victoriak1219]

Where did you get albendazole ?

[@JC-qg5bl]

Love the video, with all the knowledge and expertise ....untill......the dog comment, followed by open love letter of admiration for the parasitic worm. So bunch of dogs, he hates. Parasitic worm, absolutely love

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

In a place like Bhutan filled with protected dogs, is it possible to treat the dogs for the worms.

[@lindanorris2455]

HIDEOUS THINGS : HOOKWORM.

[@themysticmuse1111]

Satan's pets. 😑

[@themysticmuse1111]

@8Truth Seeking 😂😅

[@rjgjn378]

Nice music at the end

[@theresageiger584]

I need help please

[@tarabonee8855]

I had no idea.....thank you

[@Fink-id6yg]

It is beautiful. Small scale of large deep water fish worms and even worm like fish or eel or other organisms. With sea life often down to the feeding or mouth plates

[@ldjt6184]

I love the music too as well as the video. What's the music??

[@psfgtech]

Awesome history relearning

[@joellopezgarcia9973]

Thank you for exist and share your knowledge... you are my idols!

[@cindymusonda4676]

they were god damn lazy....they were fighting war with energy but all of a sudden after the war n freedom of slaves the infection suddenly decided to manifest itself ...ohhhhhhhhhhh

[@a.j.abrams3550]

So sorry to hear about your infection @ 42:11 but it's very brave of you to comment on your case. I sincerely hope that now you can finally calm your tits.

[@rogercain2322]

This dude is straight up coming out in left field

[@chantalmarieee]

Exactly lol

[@AngelaFlynnGrnEv]

I am certain I have a cutaneous helminth infestation, but cannot get any help from doctors. I am low income and have to go to clinics. I have been homeless off and on and also used to go to dog beaches. I may have more than one type of helminth as I was feeling them moving in my veins 4 months ago and now they are everywhere. I feel a rather large worm (maybe a couple of inches long) moving on my scalp and then what I think are larvae pretty much everywhere. Do you have any suggestions as to how i can get diagnosed and treated?

[@dennisdean4164]

Me too girl! I am going through the exact same thing. They are going to kill me, I have too many, and different kinds. I don't know what to do.

[@limapodima7534]

Maybe go to a feed store. They have dewormers for animals. I have used a fair amount of things for veterinary medicine, but they are the same as those for humans, just much less expensive. Be careful. God bless. There are free clinics too. I would recommend this to be on the safe side ❤️🙏🤗

[@limapodima7534]

A lot of things can feel like they are there, but it is always better to get a diagnosis from a professional ❤️🙏🤗😇

[@joannabraham4309]

Me too. I have shaved my hair. Doctors do not believe and won't even test

[@tiffanypinkston92]

I feel ur pain!!! I was diagnosed but NO HELP CAME. I was referred STAT to an infectious Dr but again my own PCP couldn't even find a specialist to help me. I'm now down 100 lbs in 8 months and feel sick all the time. Lost my teeth, ate my tonsils away , bowe blockage, ECT....... What do we do??? I'm scared at this point

[@jamesderoc6717]

fascinating thank you

[@prettyprudent5779]

What would we do without science and MEDICINE?? We'd be DOOMED.

[@jackdelang4301]

is that how you see the world?

[@jackdelang4301]

there's a job at CNN just waiting for you lol

[@prettyprudent5779]

@@jackdelang4301 : Well, I guess our ancestors did okay. But today is a better world.

[@JamesSmith-xt5xt]

Nice! Ronald Jenkees at the end! That's awesome man.