Why Helminthic Immunotherapy Can Make All the Difference in Treating your Autoimmune Disease.

If you’re suffering from autoimmune diseases or Crohn or ulcerative colitis or multiple sclerosis or inflammatory bowel disease or allergies or asthma and you have no idea what helminthic immunotherapy is yet, then you should definitely take a look, because indeed with their strong potential for being highly effective at combatting the symptoms of all these diseases, you don’t want to miss these benefits.

In this blogpost we’re going to cover what you’ll need to know as a start about this type of therapy to be able to understand how it works at least if you’re ever pondering to use it someday.

 

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So what is a Helminth in the first place?

They’re parasitic worms such as hookworms or tapeworms and they’re responsible for the modification of immune response disorders via the use of the worms or their ova , which is exactly what Immunotherapy is actually , with the difference that it’s mainstream approaches mostly use chemical agents whether natural or not .

So how does this treatment take place?

It’s as simple as introducing the worm or its ova depending on the disease inside the patient.

Do these types of worms have several types that I should know?

They have rather complicated names, but to simplify it, here are the most commonly used helminths for treatment:

Human whipworm eggs, hook worms, rattapeworm, and pig whipworm eggs

And what types of diseases these worms can be used upon?

Mainly they’re highly effective towards the symptoms and disease disorders such as autoimmune diseases relapse, multiple sclerosis inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, allergies and asthma. 

It’s also been reported that their presence in less developed countries could be the cause of a lesser rate of autoimmune diseases as opposed to industrialized countries which have a higher rate.

Does this type of Immunotherapy have an exact mechanism based upon which it works?

So far scientists haven’t found an exact mechanism and thus it’s still unknown how it’s responsible for all these types of effects.

Though there has been several mechanisms that the researchers proposed that could explain why they’re effective as they are, here’s one hypothesis they proposed:

The effects undergone by the helminths could be effective because of the modulation of the dendritic functions and the repolarization of Th1/Th2 responses.

Wrapping up, you now have a basic grasp on helminthic immunotherapy, what are these helminths, why they could be effective as they, and what are their exact uses currently