Just did another McMaster egg count. Results: 850 – 950 epg. (I did it twice, but with the same stool sample.) I suppose I should do another stool sample to verify, but this is down from 1400 epg in January. Symptoms have been worse as well, the last month or so. More mucus, more urgency, [...]
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Did another McMaster egg count. 1400 epg Roughly the same as the last time I checked, which was 1550 epg. Wormies still having sex and kicking out eggs. Crohns symptoms are still good, especially when I don’t eat out and stick to more healthful foods.
Anxiety has crept back the last 2 days, but I think [...]
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Yeah! Just did another McMaster egg count, and got 1550 epg, which is almost a double increase from the last one, 800 epg. This is week 6 since reinfection, and it’s been very up and down stool-wise, but the last week, things are setting down to mostly solid, thank God. I’ll get diarrhea when I [...]
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Did another McMaster egg count; 800 epg. So, still down from a month ago and the few months before. Symptoms are pretty miserable – I added VSL#3 (high potency probiotics) in yesterday and that helped – a more solid stool this morning, but I just had diarrhea again. I cut back on the vitamin/mineral supplements [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
I’ve been doing McMaster egg counts since I got reinfected with hookworms, and I’m always curious how many worms I have.
(image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/prep4md/2772121447/)
The Nottingham dose-ranging trial has a list of quantitative egg counts per dose. According to that chart, 10 and 25 larvae resulted in an average of 100-300 epg. 50 had a higher egg [...]
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