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Originally Posted by costello
There's a really good This American Life about a guy who gets hookworms deliberately in order to cure his severe allergies. He had to go to Africa to get them. Maybe that's why more people seem to have allergies these days - not enough hookworms.
Enemy Camp 2010 | This American Life |
Yeah I work in a GI department so I've actually seen docs promoting various worms for this very reason however there is a huge squick factor just like fecal transplants although those have really caught on...
But yeah some of the components of the immune system like igE basically have nothing to do without worms so they just attack whatever's available...