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Part 2: Follow up on progress of “A”

This is, as the title suggests, one in a series of posts, almost entirely derived from emails from her family that they send me periodically to keep us up-to-date.

At the end of this post, and in a few minutes all the others, is a standard block of text with links to each part of the story of this child, as well as some additional information.

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I just got a fantastic, cheering follow-up email from the dad of “A” whose experience with severe Crohn’s, as a two year-old, and her response to whipworm for her problems are described in my previous post, and now here:

Here is his follow up email to me:

Quoting: We had the colonoscopy done yesterday with amazing results. The doctors first words to us after completion were “I’m now a believer in this therapy”. “A” had absolutely no signs of Crohn’s anywhere. She said someone else looking at her would think there was not a thing wrong with her. The worms were alive and kicking, and she gave us some pictures. [A’s Mom] and I couldn’t be happier, we wanted to jump and shout. The doctor said we should get more worms, and that the biopsies should be in within two weeks. She seemed very pleased as well.” end quote.

Pretty cool, eh?!

Of course this is remission, not cure, so if she loses her helminths she would get sick again, but I for one could not be happier.

Links to rest of series on “A”

“A” was under 2 years old when diagnosed with Crohn’s Colitis, and the disease appears from the family’s descriptions to have been severe and aggressive. They approached us when the recommendation for treatment from the child’s Gastroenterologist was one of the biologics, either Remicade or Humira, I cannot remember which.

Below are links to each of the four posts, so far, which for the most part are just emails from the child’s dad on “A’s” progress, and his thoughts and observations.

Managing the links between the posts has become cumbersome, so I have created this standard block of links to tie the story together, explain the context if someone happens upon one of the posts and does not realise they are part of a series, and will probably make a static page to aggregate the whole thing.

Part 1: Part 1 of the story of “A”

Part 2: Part 2 of the story of “A”

Part 3: Part 3 of the story of “A”

Part 4: Part 4 of the story of “A”

2 thoughts on “Part 2: Follow up on progress of “A”

  1. Hello Jasper,
    I just was listening to your NPR interview and found myself thinking that my brother Edgar has the same problem you did. I am just now developing bad asthma and allergies and the symptoms are year round.

    My brother about 10 years ago, was told to walk barefoot through sand while we were visiting family in Mexico and that helped considerably. I began wondering if this had anything to do with Hook Worm at all?

    Also, I cannot fathom having my entire life dictated by allergies/asthma. I think we spend more on Kleenex tissue than food.

    We are very interested. Please give me more information.

    So thankful I heard this message on NPR!

    Sincerely,
    Cynthia Guzman

  2. I’m hugely embarrassed that its taken us so long to respond to your comment while the company has been short of staff, but if you’re still interested, please read our website (http://autoimmunetherapies.com/) and use our Contact details (at: http://autoimmunetherapies.com/helminthic_therapy_contact.html) to get in touch.

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