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	<title>Comments on: The Potential Dangers of Helminth Therapy</title>
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	<description>... a day in the life of Crohn's disease ...</description>
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		<title>By: I</title>
		<link>http://waitingforthecure.com/I/2009/08/31/the-potential-dangers-of-helminth-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-947</link>
		<dc:creator>I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooh, I love success stories.  What kind of worms are you using, Tracy?  For what disease?  At what dose? 4.5 years is long enough to prove efficacy, I think.  Congratulations and I&#039;m so happy for you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh, I love success stories.  What kind of worms are you using, Tracy?  For what disease?  At what dose? 4.5 years is long enough to prove efficacy, I think.  Congratulations and I&#8217;m so happy for you!</p>
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		<title>By: Tracy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree completely with you Anthony. I have been using helminth therapy for 4.5 years now and I have been able to stop using prednisone. My little pets have given me the quality of life I have not had in years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree completely with you Anthony. I have been using helminth therapy for 4.5 years now and I have been able to stop using prednisone. My little pets have given me the quality of life I have not had in years.</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony Griffis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anthony Griffis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You do realize that Helminth therapy is many times safer than the therapy you are probably currently using to control your crohn&#039;s right?

Did you know that having infusions of Humira or Remicade makes you 3 times more likely to develop lymphoma and other cancers INCLUDING multiple organ cancer AND melanoma? What about all of the other side effects? If you have Crohn&#039;s disease you are supposed to have yearly or bi-yearly colonoscopies anyways because simply having this disease puts you at a high risk of colon cancer. Did you know that? If you didn&#039;t you need to fire your gastroenterologist. 

Are you on steroid therapy too? Do you like the way you feel on Prednisone? Did you know steroids used to treat auto-immune diseases are linked to all kinds of nasty things, such as increased risk of heart attack, stroke, cataracts, liver failure and so on. 

These drugs that the FDA (big phara) are approving in most cases cause more long-term damage to your body than they are actually helping. Because they cannot make a huge profit from Helminths, if any at all, Helminthic research is practically non-existent in the US and other developed countries. 

If you could put your Crohn&#039;s into indefinite remission, and the only major long-term side effect is an increased risk (get it, RISK) of colon cancer, which you already have from simply having crohn&#039;s, would you choose it?

I sure as hell would if I truly had a choice; however, choice is not something we get much of in the US when you have a debilitating auto-immune disease.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do realize that Helminth therapy is many times safer than the therapy you are probably currently using to control your crohn&#8217;s right?</p>
<p>Did you know that having infusions of Humira or Remicade makes you 3 times more likely to develop lymphoma and other cancers INCLUDING multiple organ cancer AND melanoma? What about all of the other side effects? If you have Crohn&#8217;s disease you are supposed to have yearly or bi-yearly colonoscopies anyways because simply having this disease puts you at a high risk of colon cancer. Did you know that? If you didn&#8217;t you need to fire your gastroenterologist. </p>
<p>Are you on steroid therapy too? Do you like the way you feel on Prednisone? Did you know steroids used to treat auto-immune diseases are linked to all kinds of nasty things, such as increased risk of heart attack, stroke, cataracts, liver failure and so on. </p>
<p>These drugs that the FDA (big phara) are approving in most cases cause more long-term damage to your body than they are actually helping. Because they cannot make a huge profit from Helminths, if any at all, Helminthic research is practically non-existent in the US and other developed countries. </p>
<p>If you could put your Crohn&#8217;s into indefinite remission, and the only major long-term side effect is an increased risk (get it, RISK) of colon cancer, which you already have from simply having crohn&#8217;s, would you choose it?</p>
<p>I sure as hell would if I truly had a choice; however, choice is not something we get much of in the US when you have a debilitating auto-immune disease.</p>
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