Parasitic Diseases Lectures #29: Onchocercaiasis

[@hannahvansumeren4196]

Wow! So informative. I am currently learning about these parasitic diseases in medical school. Thank you for taking the time to put this information together in a free public format

[@akashiana5251]

I am seeking treatment for oncho

[@abdirahmanhussein6230]

@@akashiana5251 ivermecting

[@abdirahmanhussein6230]

which school

[@ListenLinda-od9ph]

I need help to get to a doctor I have a huge rash of them my back stinging pain please somebody help me lead me in the right direction

[@cleetx3546]

Please do a video on O.Lupi so you can spread the word to health care practitioners specifically infectious disease doctors and the general public. I have been clinically diagnosed with O. Lupi. I am a farmer in Texas and just keep getting referrals to infectious disease doctors that refuse to even do an exam and seem to have forgotten how to use microscopes. We were referred to the Mayo. Sadley when the Mayo clinic called we were informed that they are only accepting patients with gastrointestinal parasitic infestations. We have literally no where to turn except for my livestock med box if we cant get someone to help us. I do believe that denying a US farmer can get parasites if they have not left the country is illogical and delusional.

[@cleetx3546]

@@akashiana5251 have you been able to figure out the reason for the widespread inhumanity?

[@akashiana5251]

@@cleetx3546 Yes

[@cleetx3546]

@@akashiana5251 okay well maybe I wasn't specific enough lol. Bcs I think it is probably obvious it has to do with pharmaceutical money and money from medical system kickbacks. Seems to me that there has to be a specific international health treaty that was agreed upon to mislead the masses. Do you know of any such thing?

[@akashiana5251]

@@cleetx3546 Doctors are only human, and most are "lost" right now. One needs to do one's own research and resort also to ancient herbal remedies and old-fashioned food. Don't rely on the doctors because they are in the grips of fear, brainwashing and manipulation. Moderm medicine is very young and knows very little. These parasites know us much better than we know them. From the vet box, regular ivermectin has been useful.

[@cleetx3546]

@@akashiana5251 yep...like I said I am a farmer and I have been at it for 3 years now. I will never stop putting pressure on our medical institutions to convey to the American people that our nationality actually doesn't make us immune to man's oldest nemesis

[@abdirahmanhussein6230]

I am in dafur the center of neglected tropical diseases CDC i saw many cases in schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis and other parasitic diseases

[@cleetx3546]

Here's a struggle that I have with diagnostics being dependent on the patient's origin... which I can only base solely from my personal perspective. I have had a Ghanaian live with me for a year or so, dated a Palestinian for a year in high school, and live nextdoor to an elderly Lebanese man of whom I have dug through his decaying septic system on more than one occasion. I don't know for sure but I am pretty confident that they were not required to leave their parasites in their country of origin. If we have the equivalent vectors if not completely the same vectors why is it inconceivable that there would be transmission onto a population of people that do not test regularly for parasites?

[@katiejo1095]

No borders for parasites. It is ridiculous that in the USA we treat all animals for all of these parasites and then say...... these parasites are only a problem in 3rd world areas. It is madness.

[@akashiana5251]

Exactly

[@annlvova5328]

Thank you soo much for all important information...this is vital to know

[@reddipallisharath7273]

Wonderful lectures. A small correction. Winterbottom sign is regarding trypanosomiasis. Not onchocerciasis.

[@kingssem1583]

So informative !!..Thank you 🙏🏾

[@enchanted_treasure4636]

I caught this in the u.s. in Louisiana to be exact. I still have it bc doctors don't believe me. My husband worked at the locks and dams along the red river and brought trash home from there to put on the curb and doctors wont listen to me bc all the info iut there says it doesnt happen in tge united states. Its not the same as in poorer countries bc we get to bath and regularly so they e ded up getting into our nose, sinuses, throat, and ears, as well as the skin. Sone have made there way into my veins on my hands and feet and i now have chronic veinus insufficiency all over the body. Bc its not veing looked for and its presenting differently in the u.s. i cant get help and my family including my young children are suffering.

[@akashiana5251]

I thought I had it too but as it turns out Morgellons can be very similar to Onchocersiasis. Which it can imitate and probably blend with, as it does with other creatures. It's mindblowing and most doctors are not mentally prepared to figure out the complexities.

[@nancylee3424]

A good derma, and I mean good, is what helped me. Yes, I have had to be referred to other specialist but I am finally believed and understood. It is a long hard road because we don't want to accept we have such diseases in our country but WE DO!

[@bonniej0]

They spread from scratching and picking them out. So gross I've been isolated in my house.

[@veo_]

I just discovered I have this, and likely have had it for about 10 years since that's the last time I was anywhere near an infection zone (Peruvian Amazon). I have a nodule on my left shoulder which I thought was a pressuer cyst or lipoma and it's ben ther so long I don't remember when it started. I've also had problematic dry/patchy skin prone to folliculitis for so long I just thought it was normal for me. So Weird!

[@nancylee3424]

ROB! Me too ! I have been diagnosed with Sarcoidosis for 20 years, but most of my Dr's still doubt it , because my granulomas vs nodules just don't add up to Sarcoidosis, with other DX's of cutaneous Lupus and Psoriatic Arthritis and just lately Ocular Rosacea!! Being an avid camper and outdoors girl all my life, it's hard to tell as I have camped from the Bahamas to Norway and living in NE NC, I have been dubbed the "bug girl" as they LOVE ME! Plus the eye floaters I've seen are BUGS!

[@nancylee3424]

MY THANKS TO ALL OF EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THESE LIFE SAVING LECTURES!

[@maxcarr6266]

I have this end can't seem to find s Dr to help me. Had over s year now and getting REALLY SCARY!! HOSPITAL IS NO HELP HERE

[@RevLisaMariaMurrayND]

So, the donations of IVM to W. Africa has nearly eradicated O. volvulus and river blindness occurrences... or I heard that wrong and need to listen again. But that's good news. Thanks for the great presentation.

[@dontoews6754]

I'd give diatomaeous earth a whirl, it seems to be killing parasites in my blood

[@Hansen23900]

Interesting videos. I'm curious, do you treat people and if so, what state?

[@akashiana5251]

Excellent

[@bonniej0]

Do you know anything about I have little tiny white worms under my skin like you can see them poke up through the skin to breathe and I pull them out and they're really tiny and one time I ran my arms under ice cold water and a shit ton of them came out they were just they weren't worms though it was like they look like water droplets but they were kind of off white and they stayed on my skin I had to take them off they weren't hard to get off and just push them off. I doxycycline and I also had a swollen lymph node under my arm like a couple months ago I don't have it now but my arms get swollen and of course I got scabs everywhere cuz I picked not a whole bunch but they're scattered all over and I noticed when I put the Ivermectin on my arms for the cream they navigate for the rest of my body I've got some on my legs I used to have them all over me and I put filters in the water. But they look like little white bumps the edges of the sores. And I've been to 12 doctors they said it's all in my head and that I should get some psychiatric treatment and I'm sick of it. I'm so embarrassed and depressed I am tired I don't want to go anywhere. I also when I urinate it I saw a whole shit ton of worms come out and they were like clear and long and they caused quite a havoc in the toilet that's when I noticed there was something in there. I had to put my camera to 10 to see them and they were very active. You couldn't scooped them out they weren't they were really weird looking and they were almost invisible. I also have black and white striped worms that came out and I had a big clump of yellow stuff that came out when i. A little white things in my poop. None of my doctors did anything they didn't test anything and I had a poop test once and it showed e coli. If there's anything you can do to help it's no itching or bothersome in the vagina area or the ass area. It's all over my arms really bad and I had one in my lip and on my chin and I just so bad it's been with me for a couple years now I feel like I'm getting eaten up at night I was thinking maybe flea bites or green eggs but they don't turn into white turn into white worms if you can share your email with me that would be great this is mine [e-mail]

[@shekutejan414]

Great video

[@akashiana5251]

I believe Morgellons and onchocerca can kind of fuse in together

[@bonniej0]

How do i get diagnosed? I've been to dermatologist, infectious disease dr. I finally just got ivermectin. Did buy some pills for black walnut and worm wood, clove, papaya seeds.

[@nancylee3424]

Bonnie, I have this too, it sucks! It is in my skin and eyes as keratitis, so my derma, who knew and gives me Doxycycline 100mgs daily, quickly passed me to a ocular eye dr, who DX's and treats for this! I also found it can cause bladder issues, so if you have bladder issues a good urologist will help you too! Your little white worms are probably a mite called demodex, OTC Ivermectin lotion sold at Walmart/Equate. We all have these but when our immune system is depleted due to other parasites they thrive! Good Luck!

[@bonniej0]

@nancylee3424 thank you so much it's so good to hear from somebody that has some experience like I do cuz I can't find anybody with anything like this. I'm still picking them out left and right every night during the day they're quiet. I went to another on such as disease doctor like 3 days 2 days ago and she actually took me seriously. I said listen if I was doing drugs, would my skin be be purple , and disconnected from My Flesh and there's air pockets and worm tracks and come on I'm not dreaming this up and I actually talked to her for a while and told her I have a stomach cramps really bad a lot and that I've been having a lot of time and I've noticed more you know I've been starting to notice the other signs like my left side has been killing me and I don't know if that has to do with a kidney or a bladder She finally sat down with me and took some notes and looked at me and took my samples and sent them to the lab so I'm waiting for them to come back. When I went to the dermatologist 4 years ago and they could they said I had "prurigo nodularis ", when I researched it, the definition just says squamous tissue with nodules!! So I was still looking for worms and then I started looking for parasites and then I found a lot of things that looks away familiar to this but I also noticed there was a group created for p.m. a while ago and now when I started it was very small and there's hundreds of hundreds of people joining it now. Parasites and something's definitely wrong cuz you can't just saying oh I don't know what it is it's Squamish tissue with nodules you need to find out what's causing it what in your body is is causing it. I'm just so tired it's been 4 years I'm so scared I love my arms are so bad thank God they went away all over my body but I still have a few of my leg and I'm on my stomach and now I have two on my chest like so pissed. But of all the doctors I saw 12 doctors only one took samples and didn't take the nodules only took where I had picked them out. This doctor was excited to get the samples LOL. I almost didn't get to see her cuz she called and tried to cancel with me twice saying that we've seen other doctors and seen other you know infectious disease doctors and I don't know what more I could do for you. The doctor at the Dermatology place that I went was a big New England Dermatology you know not just in the office and he was happy to be a pathologist and we looked at him under a double-headed microscope and it was stupid it was no volume to it no color or anything it just looked like a Grace awkward shaped square or triangle rectangular mix and with a dark line around it and he couldn't see nothing and I'm like this is ridiculous. So I called the office like the next day and asked for the cream do you ever met some cream and then I noticed that the girl said oh well he said you don't have anything anyway I'm like what do you know like you're not she's not supposed to share that information with you oh yes sir I'm a medical assistant I said I don't care who the hell you are he's not supposed to share my information like that! So I put the cream all over my arms and you know what they just relocated they didn't give a shit. Then I put Vaseline on so try to get them to smother them so they come to the top and I wouldn't be digging holes to try to get them out. Question??? Do you ever run your arms or anything under ice cold water and see all these like water drops that kind of turned white and stuck to your skin they didn't drip up like the regular water? Has thousands of them all over my arms and legs I couldn't believe it and I wiped them off with towels and and like a you know use something to go up and down my arm and he's stuck to the you know tweezers when I just scraped my arm and I have my sister come over and I showed her it was really weird but they all got it got less after that they want as prominent after that so I don't know if these are eggs or even if they lay eggs but if your skin gets all red and swollen and everything and then all of a sudden you got a lot of what did you ever see that happen cuz I didn't see that until just like 6 months ago then I pointed out to my doctor and then when I went to this new girl I was like look I want you to see that she goes well that's just water and she's trying to wipe it up I'm like listen this is not water look and I shook it off and it wouldn't shake off and it showed her that they stuck to my tweezers and then she wiped them off with a towel and they absorbs like water I said yeah I don't know I don't know it's just weird. Do you have gnats attackingyou? So did you find out what they are or what's causing it did you get anything that helps it go away I use diaper Maxine twice that's it I had to help to two doses one in January and one in March and that's it.

[@sagarboss2004]

Thank you so much

[@kasangwajuliette2297]

Give us real treatment in terms of grubs please

[@bonniej0]

Yeah they come up under the skin I think that's what I've had all these years I've had it for 4 years. I get these little white things that come up in my skin and then I'll try to pull it out by the doctor said it was keratin but it's not.went to 8 doctors and none of them found out what it was. They called Prurigo Nodularis, and I'm just getting psoriasis only on my elbow. Yeah they like to build a white crusty scab over it. They are very contagious they spread a lot. I took ivermectin almost 2 weeks ago and I can't believe what's coming out of me. Another one really long and like see through clear? I pull the white nodules out. So how long are these going to stay in me it's been almost 5 years and I have blurry vision I have to use a magnifying glass over my readers.

[@akashiana5251]

Ivm every 3 months is in the industry literature

[@bonniej0]

@@akashiana5251 it's so embarrassing and terrible I don't even leave the house 4 years depressed don't leave the house people think I'm a meth head and a picker you know people just assume things right away they never they never you know believe what you say even if you're telling the truth they always assume the worst. I've been trying to use mupirocin That's what I got that the doctor gave me for for my sores which helps and I've been putting if I put Vaseline on them right after they hatch and just rub the tweezers over them they popped they'll come popping out for air you can see the bubbles it's so sad and sick. And the worms coming out of my urine is incredible tons of these clear clear long worms that I didn't even notice them until I saw the waves in the toilet. Then I took my camera out and videotaped it and I got closer and I saw them all it was unbelievable. There's other types too to kind of hard to describe a big it looks like they're all chained together one of them and it's like a big circle black and white or black and tan I don't know it's weird it's hard to see the color with the camera and the toilet lol and I couldn't scooped any of them out I didn't try with the other ones I just got the idea to scoop to clear ones out and it's impossible like you can't tell even with the Vaseline it's hard to tell the difference between the parasite and the Vaseline that is like the same color kind of when they're on your skin

[@bonniej0]

@@akashiana5251 I've been begging for ivermectin for years I've had this for 4 years now and I went to an infectious disease doctor I didn't even take off my coat He's like oh you don't have it a disease he's like you just need to go counseling and like the whole team like diagnosed me with all kinds of psychological problems and paid no attention in my sores. Like my blood work was high and white counts and they said I'll probably cuz you're smoking I said really you don't think it's because of all these freaking sores all over my body? And they said how I gained weight when my hip has to be replaced and my back hurts so bad I can't even walk down the street this doctor put a coflex clamp on me and I've been hunchbacked so I got to find a new doctors and I just fired all of them and I'm finding all the doctors I might even take them to court for negligence I mean this has been 4 years going on 5 years of suffering with this it's been very painful isolating depressing full of anxiety we all these things come out of me you know Man when I took that ivermectin I went to walk-in clinic a month ago and and the doctor there gave me ivermective no problem I asked her I said listen these there's these things coming out of my skin you know we were showing her pictures but man when I after I took the iromatic and I couldn't believe the relief I had for a couple weeks you know it was nice My skin was almost all cleared up. Plus it's worse now than ever they blew up like crazy after a month so it's on fire it's really bad right now it's really bad it's awful I've got one on my leg that's really kind of looking infected I didn't quitting a lot of Vaseline on it and taking all the ones out that I can. Do you have any other suggestions? Is there anyway I can get it before 3 months since I've had it for 4 years it's going to be hard to break the cycle. I think this s*** came in with COVID I wouldn't doubt it cuz they've been cropped dusting and I wouldn't doubt it if they brought these flies here I don't know cuz I killed one next to my bed a flash fly that look just like the black fly with the stripes and everything looks just like it it was definitely a flashlight on the side of my bed in my basement and no gnats and stuff get in the screen when you have the windows open down here and I could have got bit right here in my basement I don't know. I just know that my skin's on fire and I'm really hurting and I got sores all over my arms and one big one on my leg thank God nowhere else well there's a tiny one on my stomach sucking bit me and it's something just bit me the other night and is doing this so what else could it be if it if they killed to fly can I guess any kind of insect can do this right? It's just a tiny little nap that bit me though on my stomach and I'm watching it to see if anything comes out of it it's kind of looking like it will but because they're going to travel to that anyway all these things are going to go there put my leg looks pretty bad it's all red and it hurts My ankle was swollen thank you for getting back to me nobody cares it's the problem with today's society. 😔😪😖🥵

[@bonniej0]

@@akashiana5251 oh and I meant to say I could not believe all the worms coming out of me My urine tons and tons of these long jelly looking kind of clear worms like I wouldn't have noticed them that much if the toilet wasn't in a Whirlpool and I didn't get my phone and really look at them I was like oh my God they were like long long worms with black stripes there was orange worms there was white worms, and this weird big yellow thing came out after I pooped it looked like dead eggs or something it was a big pat like a big thing of it it wasn't broken up or anything I can't even believe it came out without breaking up. I didn't know what that is either geez.

[@katiejo1095]

Amazing that it never crosses the border!

[@akashiana5251]

Yah they must be racist lol

[@cgdoctor8241]

back of someones neck 😂😂 ... nice save sir

[@kasangwajuliette2297]

Sorry drugs ihave a relative with this condition