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Dosing

Sunday, January 11, 2009

I was thinking about worm dose and efficacy. (Brace yourself; this is long and convoluted.) If one were to be dosed once with 10 larvae, then accounting for attrition, there would be perhaps 7 left in the gut. (And this number may be a high estimate.) Assuming a 50% gender split, there would be 3 [...]

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Day 1: No Itch

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I am back at my sister’s house and my two girls stand around my bandage as I slowly unroll the gauze to examine my rash. I never felt an itch. After the initial larvae burrowing through my skin, I’ve felt nothing but the tightness of the bandage. I guess 10 larvae does cause little reaction, [...]

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